Danwei : the changing Chinese workplace in historical and comparative perspective / edited by Xiaobo Lü and Elizabeth J. Perry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lü, Xiaobo, 1959-

Perry, Elizabeth J.

Series:

Socialism and social movements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China.

Communism.

China.

Danwei.

Industrial sociology--China.

Industrial sociology.

Sociology, Urban--China.

Sociology, Urban.

Working class--Political activity--China.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity.

Labor mobility--China.

Labor mobility.

Physical Description:

x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M. E. Sharpe, [1997]

Contents:

Introduction

The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective / Xiaobo Lu, Elizabeth J.Perry

Danwei in Historical Perspective

1 Minor public Economy: The Revolutionary Origins of the Danwei / Xiaobo Lu

2 From Native-Place to Workplace: Labor Origins and Outcomes of China's Danwei system / Elizabeth J.Perry

3 The Republic Origins of the Danwei: The Case of Shangai's Bank of China / Wen-Hsin Yeh

Danwei in Comparative Perspective

4 Chinese Danwei Reforms: Convergence with the Japanese Model? / Anita Chan

5 The Russian ‘Village in the City‘ and the Stalinist System of Enterprise Management: The Origins of Worker Alienation in Soviet State-Socialism / Rudra Sil

6 The Soviet Factory As Community Organizer / Kenneth Straus

Danwei Under Reform

7 Danwei: The Economic Foundations of a Unique Institution / Barry Naughton

8 The Impact of the Floating population on the Danwei: Shifts in the Patterns of Labor Mobility Control and Entitlement Provision / Dorothy Solinger

9 Work Units and Housing Reform in Two Chinese Cities / Yanjie Bian, John Logan, Hanlong Liu, Yunkang Pan, Ying Guan.

Notes:

"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765600757

0765600765

OCLC:

36548979