Inside China's automobile factories
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In Inside China's Automobile Factories, Lu Zhang explores the current conditions, subjectivity, and collective actions of autoworkers in the world's largest and fastest-growing automobile manufacturing nation. Based on years of fieldwork and extensive interviews conducted at seven large auto factories in various regions of China, Zhang provides an inside look at the daily factory life of autoworkers and a deeper understanding of the roots of rising labor unrest in the auto industry. Combining original empirical data and sophisticated analysis that moves from the shop floor to national political economy and global industry dynamics, the book develops a multilayered framework for understanding how labor relations in the auto industry and broader social economy can be expected to develop in China in the coming decades.
Title |
Inside China's automobile factories : the politics of labor and worker resistance / Lu Zhang. [electronic resource] |
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Publisher |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
Creation Date |
2015 |
Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Table of contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction Ethnography inside China's automobile factories The potential of ""cellular"" activism Autoworkers and workplace bargaining power The argument in brief Uneven contradiction and labor politics Industrial dynamics Contradictory state and regime legitimacy Revolutionary and State-Socialist legacies Legitimacy leverage The outline of the book 2 Industrial restructuring and labor force transformation in the Chinese automobile industryPre-reform development and socialist legacy in the Chinese automobile industry The development and restructuring of the Chinese automobile industry in the reform era Development strategy and industrial policy of the central government State-led ""Triple alliance"" and hegemonic labor regime, 1980s-mid-1990s Industrial restructuring and intensified competition, mid-1990s to present Changing workplace and labor regime The transformation of the production workforce and the rise of labor force dualismConclusion 3 The labor market and social composition in the automobile industry Constructing flexible labor markets and the evolution of labor force dualism The rise of labor dispatch and the supply of temporary agency workers The marketization of vocational education and the supply of student workers The structure of the labor market in the automobile industry Social composition and the labor market of formal workers Recruitment strategies and hiring standards Social composition and the labor market of temporary workersWage conditions in the Chinese automobile industry Conclusion 4 Organization of production and factory social order The organization of production: A leaner version of the mass production paradigm Just-in-Time (JIT) mass production Organization on the shop floor Rotation and skill training Mechanization, standardization, and ""human wave tactics"" Working conditions Personnel system, HRM practice, and factory social order The cadre-manager personnel system The enterprise union Job classifications, status, and factory hierarchyJob classifications at USA-1 The rise of meritocracy: Performance appraisals and the position-merit wage system The operation of internal labor markets and the structure of opportunity 5 Hegemonic consent? Formal workers' compliance and resistance Collective characteristics of formal workers: Youngsters and veterans Hopeful youngsters: Aspirations to ""Exit"" from the line Cynical veterans: ""Voice"" with no faith in change Workplace grievances and bargaining power of formal workers Labor force dualism and job security of formal workers |
Extent |
1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
Language |
English |
National Library system number |
997011504868305171 |
MARC RECORDS
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