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The Politics of Labor Protection in Authoritarian Systems: Evidence from Labor Law and Enforcement in Post-Reform China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Politics of Labor Protection in Authoritarian Systems: Evidence from Labor Law and Enforcement in Post-Reform China./
Author:	Chen, Christina.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2011,
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: 1542.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-04A.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3488198
ISBN:	9781267080516

The Politics of Labor Protection in Authoritarian Systems: Evidence from Labor Law and Enforcement in Post-Reform China.
Chen, Christina.

The Politics of Labor Protection in Authoritarian Systems: Evidence from Labor Law and Enforcement in Post-Reform China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2011 - 247 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: A, page: 1542.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2011.

This dissertation seeks to shed light on labor politics in authoritarian settings by examining the ways in which labor conflicts and unions affected the making and implementation of labor policy in post-reform China. Western observers would argue that the absence of trade union independence and pluralism in countries like China is the cause of weak labor protection. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I show that in the absence of democratic elections, trade union independence and pluralism, labor conflicts can be a catalyst for union empowerment and pro-labor policies. In China, rising labor conflicts since the 1990s threatened the survival of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule and induced the CCP to allow the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the previously feeble official trade union organization, to take on a more active role in articulating workers' interests at both the national and local levels. The CCP's shift gave the ACFTU the opening to promote workers' rights, and the ACFTU was able to gain rapid access to the policy process at the national level. At the local level, my research shows that the more contentious the labor situation, the more empowered the unions are on workplace issues. And the more empowered the unions, the more diligent government labor bureaucracies are in enforcing labor laws and regulations.

ISBN: 9781267080516Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

The Politics of Labor Protection in Authoritarian Systems: Evidence from Labor Law and Enforcement in Post-Reform China.
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