Chinese Workers and Their State

This text examines the most economically critical and politically sensitive issues of China's reform process - labour market development, changing industrial relations, and labour-state and labour-capital conflict. It suggests that a system is emerging in China which is a form of capitalism. <p>Introduction 1. Job Categories and Employment Channels Among the "Floating Population" 2. The Making of the Chinese Working Class 3. Management Control of Labor in State-owned Enterprises: Cases from the Textile Industry 4. Downsizing China's State Industrial Enterprises: The Case of Baoshan Steel Works 5. Labor Relations in Foreign-funded Ventures, Chinese Trade Unions and the Prospects for Collective Bargaining 6. Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Foreign Capital</p>