From family to market : labor allocation in contemporary China / Fei-Ling Wang.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wang, Fei-Ling.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Manpower policy--China.
• Manpower policy.
• China.
• Labor market--China.
• Labor market.
• Labor mobility--China.
• Labor mobility.
• China--Economic policy--1976-.
• Economic policy.
• China--Social policy.
• Social policy.
• Communism--China.
• Communism.

Physical Description:

xviii, 347 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1998]

Summary:

This book analyzes Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation within the world's largest workforce. Capturing the peculiarities, continuities, and changes in the PRC's institutional structure, Fei-Ling Wang examines the segmented nature of China's labor force today. He points to the rare coexistence of four "labor allocation patterns": the traditional family-based system, authoritarian state allocation, community-based labor markets, and the emerging national labor market. China's enduringly stable yet backward institutional structure was based firmly on a mix of family and state institutions; now the addition of market forces highlights the PRC's transitional state. Bolstered with rich case-study detail and Chinese source material, this study argues that the development of labor allocation patterns will profoundly influence China's political and economic development in the coming century.

Contents:

• Introduction: Labor Allocation Patterns and Institutional Structures 1
• Conceptualizing Labor Allocation Patterns 2
• Labor Allocation in China: A Short History 7
• LAPs in the PRC Prior to Deng's Reform 10
• Chinese Labor Allocation in the 1990s 21
• 1. The Family-Based Traditional Pattern 29
• The Family and Family-Based LAP 30
• The Family-Based LAP in China 37
• The Family-Based LAP and the Chinese Institutional Structure 66
• 2. Authoritarian State Allocation Pattern 87
• Political Institutions and Labor Allocation 89
• The Authoritarian State LAP in China 96
• The Authoritarian State LAP and the Chinese Institutional Structure 140
• 3. Community-Based Labor Markets 163
• Community and Community-Based Markets 164
• Community-Based Labor Markets in China 172
• Institutional Role of the CLMs 209
• 4. An Emerging National Labor Market 233
• "Opening" and FDI: To Import the Market 234
• The National Labor Market in Contemporary China 240
• Impact and Prospects of the National Labor Market 279
• Conclusion: China at the Institutional Crossroads 305
• Continuity of China's Institutional Structure 305
• The Institutional Mixture and Transition in Today's PRC 307
• The Dragon Enters the Nets 313
• 1. Landmarks of Labor Allocation in the PRC 317
• 2. Locational Profile of Individuals Interviewed 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-340) and index.

ISBN:

• 0847688798
• 0847688801

OCLC:

38430483