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Globalization and Labour in China and India

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Bowles, Paul; Harriss, John

DOI: 10.1057/9780230297296

ISBN: 978-1-349-31183-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 29, 2015

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Globalization’s Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms

Bowles, Paul

Pages: 3 –21

[Workers in all parts of the world have seen their working conditions and rewards affected by the forces of globalization. These changes have been complex, often ambiguous and have had differential impacts leading to new inter- and intra-class frictions and fissures. A coherent response from...
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Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Bowles, Paul; Chang, Hongqin

Pages: 25 –44

[China’s rural economy has undergone radical change since the onset of economic reforms in 1978. In the thirty years since then, rural China has experienced successive waves of liberalization. The dismantling of the commune system in 1978 was the opening, and dramatic, salvo in a continued and...
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The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China

Chan, Chris King-Chi; Ngai, Pun; Chan, Jenny

Pages: 45 –63

[The financial crisis of 2008 brought the world economy into a new stage. While the western capitalist countries suffered seriously, China seems to stand out as one of the few countries that could resist the economic tsunami. There is a general belief that this ability arises from China’s strong...
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Globalization, Structural Reform and Labour Politics in China

Blecher, Marc

Pages: 64 –83

[Marx and Engels were right as far as they went, and they’d probably be the first to welcome the criticism that their formulation did not fully appreciate the power of the dialectic they hypothesized. When they penned those words, Britons had literally battered down the walls militarily and...
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China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?

Haiyan, Wang; Appelbaum, Richard P.; Degiuli, Francesca; Lichtenstein, Nelson

Pages: 84 –103

[Labour relations in modern China have long been unbalanced. During the Mao era, all workers were supposed to contribute their labour without reservation to the state-owned employing ‘units’, which were responsible for setting wages, as well as providing health care, housing, children’s...
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The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India’s Agrarian Economy

Ramachandran, V. K.; Rawal, Vikas

Pages: 107 –130

[This chapter analyses the impact of policies of so-called stabilization and structural adjustment, or liberalization and globalization, on the agrarian economy of India. These are policies that have been imposed, in differing degrees, on the people of the Third World by international capital and...
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Globalization, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy

Harriss-White, Barbara

Pages: 131 –150

[This chapter explores some theoretical and practical problems arising from the impact of liberalization/globalization and its latest crisis on India’s informal economy — heavily populated by petty commodity producers and petty traders (henceforth pcp). Its theoretical focus is the distinctions...
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Beyond the Factory: Globalization, Informalization of Production and the Changing Locations of Labour

Sanyal, Kalyan; Bhattacharya, Rajesh

Pages: 151 –169

[There are two contradictory views on the impact of globalization on labour activism. It is widely argued that globalization has considerably weakened labour movements all over the world. It is observed that, with labour tied to its specific geographical locations, increasingly footloose capital...
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‘Class’ in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore

Roychowdhury, Supriya

Pages: 170 –188

[The decline of labour activism has been noted as a global phenomenon. One important reason for this decline has been said to be the change in the structure of labour. First, new labour practices — outsourcing and contract work — have meant that relatively smaller numbers of workers are now...
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Labour and Globalization: Union Responses in India

Hensman, Rohini

Pages: 189 –206

[The economic liberalization programme begun in July 1991 initiated the globalization of the Indian economy. Faced with a crisis resulting from foreign exchange reserves sufficient for just a fortnight’s imports, the Congress government undertook some of the measures recommended by the...

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