Description: From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China Author(s): Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, Mary E. Gallagher Format: Hardback Publisher: Cornell University Press, United States Imprint: ILR Press ISBN-13: 9780801450242, 978-0801450242 Synopsis In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar transitions have occurred in other countries, such as Korea, although perhaps not at such a rapid pace as in China. This shift echoes the move from "breadwinning" careers to contingent employment in the postindustrial United States. In From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society. This book provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among workers, unions, NGOs, employers, and the state as they deal with the new landscape of insecure employment. Contributors: Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Baohua Dong, East China University of Politics and Law; Mark W. Frazier, University of Oklahoma; Mary E. Gallagher, University of Michigan; Sarosh Kuruvilla, Cornell University; Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA; Kun-Chin Lin, King's College, London; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Albert Park, University of Oxford; Yuan Shen, Tsinghua University; Sarah Swider, Wayne State University; Lu Zhang, Temple University
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Book Title: From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Safety
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 28 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, Mary E. Gallagher
Series: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
