It has become widely assumed that the standard employment relationship (SER) is in
irreversible decline in industrialized societies. However, non‐standard and precarious work …

Can authoritarian regimes use democratic institutions to strengthen and solidify their rule?
The Chinese government has legislated some of the most protective workplace laws in the …

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 …

Decent Work is a key initiative launched by the International Labour Organization in 1999.
The initiative is to promote decent and productive employment with decent conditions of …

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased
rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began moving in a pro-labor …

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 …

C hina's new L abour C ontract L aw took effect in J anuary 2008 and required firms to give
migrant workers written contracts, strengthened labour protections for workers and …

China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent
times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from a command economy to a …

Growing internationalization of economic activity has corroded the capacity of national
institutions to regulate work and employment. In this changing context, established …