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This volume attempts to look beyond the 'iron rice bowl' employment system that has typified Chinese workplace relations since the early 1950s and how Deng's economic reforms since 1978 have changed its 'jobs for life' and 'cradle to the grave' welfare arrangements. Part I covers the development of industrial relations in the PRC since 1949, the evolution of its trade unions in both state-owned and joint-venture firms and the role of state-owned enterprises as embodiments of this lifetime employment system. Part II proceeds to look at ongoing empirical research on current labour-management practices, individual and collective contracts, human resource management in joint ventures, performance-based rewards systems and changing workers' attitudes. Part III considers wider issues, such the growth of unemployment due to structural reforms, the challenges to 'socialist' workplace relations and the role of organized labour in contemporary Chinese economy and society.
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Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy Edited by Malcolm Warner Studies on the Chinese Economy General Editors: Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, England; and Dong Fureng, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China This series analyses issues in China’s current economic development, and sheds light upon that process by examining China’s economic history. It contains a wide range of books on the Chinese economy past and present, and includes not only studies written by leading Western authorities, but also translations of the most important works on the Chinese economy produced within China. It intends to make a major contribution towards understanding this immensely important part of the world economy. Titles include: Thomas Chan, Noel Tracy and Zhu Wenhui CHINA’S EXPORT MIRACLE Sarah Cook, Shujie Yao and Juzhong Zhuang (editors) THE CHINESE ECONOMY UNDER TRANSITION Xu Dixin and Wu Chengming (editors) CHINESE CAPITALISM, 1522–1840 Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson (editors) FOOD SECURITY AND ECONOMIC REFORM Samuel P. S. Ho and Y. Y. Kueh SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH CHINA Kali P. Kalirajan and Yanrui Wu (editors) PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH IN CHINESE AGRICULTURE Bozhong Li AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN JIANGNAN, 1620–1850 Alfred H. Y. Lin THE RURAL ECONOMY OF GUANGDONG, 1870–1937 Dic Lo MARKET AND INSTITUTIONAL REGULATION IN CHINESE INDUSTRIALIZATION Jun Ma THE CHINESE ECONOMY IN THE 1990S Guo Rongxing HOW THE CHINESE ECONOMY WORKS Sally Sargeson REWORKING CHINA’S PROLETARIAT Ng Sek Hong and Malcolm Warner CHINA’S TRADE UNIONS AND MANAGEMENT Michael Twohey AUTHORITY AND WELFARE IN CHINA Malcolm Warner (editor) CHANGING WORKPLACE RELATIONS IN THE CHINESE ECONOMY Wang Xiao-qiang CHINA’S PRICE AND ENTERPRISE REFORM Xiaoping Xu CHINA’S FINANCIAL SYSTEM UNDER TRANSITION Yanni Yan INTERNATIONAL JOINT VENTURES IN CHINA Wei-Wei Zhang TRANSFORMING CHINA Xiao-guang Zhang CHINA’S TRADE PATTERNS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE Studies on the Chinese Economy Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–71502–0 (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy Edited by Malcolm Warner Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge First published in Great Britain 2000 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Compani