Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in
the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global …

Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China.
Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and …

Attempts to analyse authoritarianism in China tend towards a static focus on the state that is
homogeneous across time. We argue for a more nuanced approach that captures the …

Since their emergence in China in the mid-1990s, labor NGOs have been exposed to a wide
array of threats by the Party-state. But under Xi Jinping the repressive strategies of the …

Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The
state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on …

Description: Second edition.| Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routedge, 2020.| Includes
bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019035535 (print)| LCCN …

What impact is the current rise in workplace conflict having on governance in China? This
article argues that, over time, protests are driving the state in two directions at once: towards …

This introductory essay highlights the changing foci of labor scholarship during five distinct
periods in the evolution of Chinese industrial relations. In so doing, the author argues that …

Since their appearance in the mid-1990s, Chinese labour NGOs have mostly focused on
three kinds of activities: establishing workers' centres; carrying out outreach programs on …

In contrast to various structural accounts of collective inaction or short-lived contention of
Chinese workers, the authors take an agency-centered approach to explain how the few …