The Workers' State Meets the Market: Labour in China's Transition / Edition 1

by Sarah Cook, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Overview

Among the most dramatic changes to affect China in the 1990s is the upsurge in labour mobility and the emergence of a market-driven system of labour allocation, changes which profoundly affect the working environment and livelihoods of the Chinese people. Papers in this collection draw on a wide variety of data sources to analyse key elements of this transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714649429
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1999
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cook, Sarah; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret

Table of Contents

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Editorial Reviews

Describes the working environment and livelihoods of Chinese people as profoundly altered by an upsurge in labor mobility and the emergence of a market-driven system of labor allocation. Among the topics are the determinants of productivity and labor allocation in rural areas, motivations for migrating, and the effect of reforms in a number of areas. The six essays first appeared in the vol. 35, no. 3 (February 1999). Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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