Organizational Transition and Systematic Governance: Labor Relations in Enterprises

By assessing the transition in enterprise-employee relations in China over the six decades since the founding of the nation and the three decades since the implementation of a reform and opening up policy, this book investigates these changes from three key perspectives: occupation, operation and governance.

The book chiefly analyzes the unit system structure of enterprises and mechanisms such as apprentice systems inside organizations and proposes a combination of systematic governance and civic governance. Further, it investigates in detail the transition in labor relations in township, state-owned and private enterprises under the contract system, market system and project system, reviews the factors contributing to contradictions in labor relations at different periods, and puts forward options for modifying labor relations in various ways, including their system and structure.

Qu Jingdong, PhD of Sociology of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, serves now as associate director of National Institute of Social Development of Chinese Academy of Social Science, researcher and doctoral advisor, whose primary works include Absence and Breakage: Sociological Study on Anomie, Human Nature and Education in Modern Society, Freedom and Education: Education Philosophy of Locke and Rousseau, joins with other authors in writing Anomie Effect of Organizational Transition in Chinese Units and Social Process in Organizational Transition, compiles three albums, issues 10 translated works(including Collected Works of Durkheim, totally six volumes), and published dozens of theses on core periodicals such as Social Sciences in China and Study on Sociology.

Fu Chunhui, currently works at the School of Labor Economics of Capital University of Economics and Business, graduated from the Sociology Department of Peking University for Doctoral Degree in 2014. He lays his research emphasis on organizational sociology, development of urban and rural communities, and Chinese history of social thoughts, and has his works published on magazines such as Study on Sociology.

Wen Xiang, assistant researcher of Institute of Sociology of Chinese Academy of Social Science. He lays his research emphasis on laborer sociology, social theory and history of society, and has his works published on magazines such as Social Sciences in China, Society and Open Times.