Titlebook: China‘s Trade Unions and Management; Ng Sek Hong,Malcolm Warner Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67654-8n these foreign-owned enterprises will be increasingly emulated by their ‘native’ counterparts in the state-owned sector, now in a vigorous process of restructuring and rationalization, as suggested by the thesis of ‘institutional convergence’ brought about by the unifying imperative of ‘industrialism’.

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Trade Unions and Management in China and Their Legal Contextblic of China (Xia, 1991, p. 7). Labour legislation in the PRC was in the past paradoxically weak, given the repeated claim that the workers were ‘masters of the country’, with the system mainly protecting workers in SOEs, as noted in Chapter 1 (see Xia, 1991; Korzec, 1992; Leung, 1993; Warner, 1996a).

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Trade Unions and Management in China and Their Legal Contextn these foreign-owned enterprises will be increasingly emulated by their ‘native’ counterparts in the state-owned sector, now in a vigorous process of restructuring and rationalization, as suggested by the thesis of ‘institutional convergence’ brought about by the unifying imperative of ‘industrialism’.

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Trade Unions and Management in the State- Owned Enterprise Sectore shall argue that even in the state-sector there is a management- union ‘crisis’ in the making. The primacy of the state-sector cannot be underplayed in the context of union power in the PRC. State-owned enterprises (‘owned by the whole People’, in the official jargon) have long been the main pillars of Chinese industry.

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Setting Out the Issuesrner, 1995). Fourth, since the demise of the former Soviet Union, it remains the last major example of a Leninist ‘transmission-belt’ model of trade unionism (Chan, 1995). There are no doubt many other reasons that could be adduced to study this phenomenon: we shall return to these later.

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The Chinese Labour Movement After 1949their life there (see Guillermaz, 1972; Chan 1981; Chen 1985 for further details).In China, the formal national union structure goes back to the early 1920s (see Littler and Lockett, 1983) with the setting up of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) in 1925 in Canton.

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Conclusions: Summing-Upld economy. It is virtually certain to become even more important because of its size, dynamic economic growth, and continuing policy reforms. Yet there is relatively little understanding of many of the fundamental elements of China’s emergence, ranging from the actual magnitude of its economy to the extentof its openness to external influences.

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Book 1998sesses their strategy and structure and membership as well as their legal context. After this, it goes on to consider their role vis-à-vis management in both the State-owned as well as the foreign-funded sectors. Last, it compares their activities with organized labour in three Overseas Chinese societies, namely Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.