China's Changing Workplace : Dynamism, diversity and disparity Paperback / softback
Edited by Peter (University of New South Wales, Australia) Sheldon, Sunghoon (University of New South Wales, Australia) Kim, Yiqiong (University of New South Wales, Australia) Li, Malcolm (University of Cambridge, UK) Warner
Part of the Routledge Contemporary China Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China's workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce.
Drawing on the authors' extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces.
These changes include: the continuing spread of market-oriented human resource management across public and private sector organisations; greater employment rights for workers; local diversity in regulatory control alongside the governmental priority of a 'harmonious society'; persistent shortages of skilled labour co-existing with vast underemployment amongst the unskilled; uneven access to education and training across regions; and changes in union behaviour and influence. Unlike other studies - which tend to assume changes to management, work and employment are relatively uniform across modernising parts of the economy - this book conveys the rich variety among contemporary China's local labour markets by looking at them, and the institutions that influence them, from the bottom-up.
It focuses on other under-explored but emerging phenomena such as family-owned firms, the role of private services businesses, and the emergence of employer associations.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:332 pages, 47 Tables, black and white; 27 Line drawings, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/03/2013
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- ISBN:9780415838269
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:332 pages, 47 Tables, black and white; 27 Line drawings, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black an
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/03/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415838269
