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Globalization and Labour in China and India

Impacts and Responses

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Editors:
  1. Paul Bowles

    1. University of Northern British, Columbia, Canada

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  2. John Harriss

    1. School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Globalization’s Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms

      • Paul Bowles
      Pages 3-21

  3. China: Impacts and Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality

      • Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles, Hongqin Chang
      Pages 25-44

    3. The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China

      • Chris King-Chi Chan, Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan
      Pages 45-63

    4. Globalization, Structural Reform and Labour Politics in China

      • Marc Blecher
      Pages 64-83

    5. China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?

      • Wang Haiyan, Richard P. Appelbaum, Francesca Degiuli, Nelson Lichtenstein
      Pages 84-103

  5. International Dimensions and Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism

      • Greg Flynn, Robert O’Brien
      Pages 209-225

    3. Assessing China’s Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal World

      • Manfred Bienefeld
      Pages 226-247

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 264-271
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Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Northern British, Columbia, Canada

    Paul Bowles

  • School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada

    John Harriss

About the editors

RICHARD P. APPELBAUM is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA MANFRED A. BIENEFELD is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Canada RAJESH BHATTACHARYA is with the Centre for Popular Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA MARC BLECHER is Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, USA CHRIS KING-CHI CHAN is Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong JENNY CHAN is a doctoral candidate at the University of London, Royal Holloway, UK HONGQIN CHANG is a Ph.D candidate at the School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China FRANCESCA DEGIULI is Faculty Fellow in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA XIAO-YUAN DONG is Professor of Economics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, an adjunct professor of the China Centre of Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, China, and co-director of the Chinese Women economic Research and Training Program at CCER GREG FLYNN is a Lawyer and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University, UK, and Director of Oxford's new Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Master's in Contemporary India ROHINI HENSMAN is an Independent Scholar and writer based in Bombay who has been active in the trade union, women's liberation and anti-war movements in India and Sri Lanka NELSON LICHTENSTEIN is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ROBERT O'BRIEN is the LIUNA-Mancinelli Professor of Global Labour Issues and Chair of the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada V.K. RAMACHANDRAN is with the Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India VIKAS RAWAL is with the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India SUPRIYA ROWCHOWDHURY is Professor, Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore, India KALYAN SANYAL is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India HAIYAN WANG is a Lecturer and Assistant Director of the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program at Cornell University, USA.

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