Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Political Costs of Labor Coercion: The Changing Socioeconomic Environment since the 2000s
- 3 Atomized Incorporation: Regime Response to the Changing Environment
- 4 Politicization of Labor Discontent and Blame Attribution
- 5 Workplace Mobilization and Collective Action
- 6 Interest-Based Collective Action and Firm-Level Patterns of Labor Protests
- 7 Discursive Opportunities and Collective Action at Law-Abiding Firms
- 8 State–Labor Relations in the Xi Era and Beyond
- Appendix I: Survey Dataset
- References
- Index
2 - The Political Costs of Labor Coercion: The Changing Socioeconomic Environment since the 2000s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Political Costs of Labor Coercion: The Changing Socioeconomic Environment since the 2000s
- 3 Atomized Incorporation: Regime Response to the Changing Environment
- 4 Politicization of Labor Discontent and Blame Attribution
- 5 Workplace Mobilization and Collective Action
- 6 Interest-Based Collective Action and Firm-Level Patterns of Labor Protests
- 7 Discursive Opportunities and Collective Action at Law-Abiding Firms
- 8 State–Labor Relations in the Xi Era and Beyond
- Appendix I: Survey Dataset
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter describes the socioeconomic changes in the post-reform era that have contributed to growing labor assertiveness. It contends that the regime’s coercive control of migrant labor in the 1980s and 1990s created the structural conditions for labor assertiveness. As in other authoritarian regimes that faced a similar situation at the critical juncture, such as Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea, China also began to deal with unstable state–labor relations as the era of rapid economic growth comes to an end.
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- Atomized IncorporationChinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise, pp. 24 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023