From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China

Contents

Contents 1. Introduction and Argument 1 Mary E. Gallagher, Ching Kwan Lee, and Sarosh Kuruvilla Part I. Informalization and the State 2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market 17 Albert Park and Fang Cai 3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary China 36 Mary E. Gallagher and Baohua Dong 4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of Insecurity 61 MarkW. Frazier Part II.Transformation of Employment Relations in Industries 5. Enterprise Reform and Wage Movements in Chinese Oil Fields and Refineries 83 Kun-Chin Lin 6. The Paradox of Labor Force Dualism and State-Labor-Capital Relations in the Chinese Automobile Industry 107 Lu Zhang 7. Permanent Temporariness in the Chinese Construction Industry 138 Sarah Swider vi Contents Part III: Unions, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Workers 8. “Where There Are Workers,There Should Be Trade Unions”: Union Organizing in the Era of Growing Informal Employment 157 Mingwei Liu 9. The Anti-Solidarity Machine?: Labor Nongovernmental Organizations in China 173 Ching Kwan Lee andYuan Shen 10. Conclusion 188 Mary E. Gallagher, Sarosh Kuruvilla, and Ching Kwan Lee Notes 193 References 205 Notes on Contributors 223 Index 227 From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization ...