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China’s ambitious new urbanization plan comes with a set of contradictions the Communist Party won’t be able to control.
China has problems. Not despite thirty-five years of record-breaking growth, but because of it. The country’s dependence on exports and investment-led development has (…)
China Labor Net Editorial Note: According to the Apple Daily, the workers elected 16 representatives but the workplace union refused to recognize them. Some workers posted comments and photos on Weibo. One of them shows workers holding a banner calling for the election of the trade union.
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See also the Appeal posted previously on ESSF (article 29874), China: Free Wu Guijun, Defend the Worker’s Right to Strike!.
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Workers in China who organize in defense of their interests, go on strike or even petition to the government are fired, criminalized, arbitrarily (…)
To Mr. Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen City, Mrs. Luoli, President of the municipal federation in Shenzhen
We are writing to ask the Mayor of Shenzhen City and the municipal federation in Shenzhen to step in and give assistance in cases of Wu Guijun from Diweixin Product Factory in which worker (…)
The exploitative relationship between city and countryside pervades Chinese life. Nowhere is inequality in access to public goods clearer than in the country’s urban education system.
A key element of China’s generation-long economic boom has been its ability to provide employers with a flow (…)
The IUF is saddened but not surprised at the deaths of 120 workers when a fire swept through the Baoyuanfeng poultry plant in northeast China on June 2. When the fire broke out there were 350 workers trapped in the processing facility and only one narrow exit.
Workers reported that the factory (…)
Recently, Foxconn, the Taiwanese firm which employs 1.5 million Mainland Chinese workers to produce electronic goods for companies including Apple, announced that it will allow its workers to elect their union representatives by July 2013. Do you think the democratization of the workplace union (…)
This essay analyzes the major strike that occurred at the Nanhai Honda factory in Guangdong province in 2010, as well as subsequent strikes that followed its example. It traces the evolution of strike dynamics in China from the early 2000s to the present. One trend stands out in particular: a (…)
Workers’ Petition Letter
On February 28th, 106 of us Ohms union members signed a petition, in accordance with the relevant laws, to convene a temporary members’ congress to call for the dismissal of the chairman of the labour union. In the afternoon we handed over the 106 signatures and (…)
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
The Chinese working class plays a Janus-like role in the political imaginary of neoliberalism. On the one (…)
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
The Chinese working class plays a Janus-like role in the political imaginary of neoliberalism. On the one (…)
July 19, 2012 — Reports From the Economic Front, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author’s permission — Contemporary capitalism, driven by the competitive pursuit of private profit, tends to produce a stream of innovative goods and services. Of course this (…)
When the boss refuses to listen to workers’ grievances, those workers often have no option but to go on strike. But whether or not this tactic works sometimes depends on workers’ media advocacy skills.
On 7 May, workers at a Taiwanese-owned Crocs shoe factory in Dongguan heard that their (…)
Since its launch in April 2011, the journal Collective Bargaining Research (集体谈判制度研究) has quickly established itself as an important and influential voice in the debate on the current state and future development of labour relations in China. Together with the website China Collective Bargaining (…)
The number of cases of resistance in China continues to grow. Protests both large and small are an extremely frequent occurrence in China. They range in scale and nature from workers’ protests against unpaid wages or demands for increasing labour rights, to protests against corrupt officials or (…)
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] economics.utah.edu) has taught economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, since 2006. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. His book, The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, was published by Pluto Press and Monthly (…)
Investigation finds evidence of draconian rules and excessive overtime to meet western demand for iPhones and iPads.
An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the (…)
Last summer’s auto worker strikes in South China reverberated throughout the country and overseas.
As workers in supplier companies for Honda, Toyota, and other auto multinationals downed tools, the international business press expressed fear over the rising power of workers in China.
At (…)
These regulations have been substantially revised based on discussions with all interested parties in the wake of the problems manifest at Foxconn and Honda. Ou Guangyuan, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong People’s Congress.
Introduction
In the first six months of 2010, ten (…)
Presentation of: Swimming against the Tide A short history of labour conflict in China and the government’s attempts to control it
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In late September, after a month of intense lobbying, business leaders from Hong Kong succeeded in postponing legislation in Guangdong that (…)
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