From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China

Sarosh Kuruvilla (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0801450241 / ISBN 13: 9780801450242

Published by Cornell University Press, 2011

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2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Editor(s): Kuruvilla, Sarosh; Lee, Ching Kwan; Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth. Series: Frank W. Pierce Memorial Lectureship and Conference Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 55. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801450241
• ISBN 13: 9780801450242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar transitions have occurred in other countries, such as Korea, although perhaps not at such a rapid pace as in China. This shift echoes the move from "breadwinning" careers to contingent employment in the postindustrial United States.

In From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization, an interdisciplinary group of authors examines the nature, causes, and consequences of informal employment in China at a time of major changes in Chinese society. This book provides a guide to the evolving dynamics among workers, unions, NGOs, employers, and the state as they deal with the new landscape of insecure employment.

About the Author

Sarosh Kuruvilla is Professor of Comparative Industrial Relations, Asian Studies, and Public Affairs at Cornell University, where he serves as chair of ILR International Programs. Ching Kwan Lee is Professor of Sociology at UCLA and the author of Gender and the South China Miracle and Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. Mary E. Gallagher is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and the author of Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China.