The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management [Hardcover]

This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.This book traces the origins of the iron rice bowl of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment in Chinese factories. It suggests that, in some ways, the Chinese revolution in 1949 was not as revolutionary as most have thought. This is one of a very few books to look comparatively at the Chinese industrial workplace in pre-1949 China and post-1949 China. Frazier has mined sources that were unavailable to previous generations of researchers on China.This book traces the origins of the iron rice bowl of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment in Chinese factories. It suggests that, in some ways, the Chinese revolution in 1949 was not as revolutionary as most have thought. This is one of a very few books to look comparatively at the Chinese industrial workplace in pre-1949 China and post-1949 China. Frazier has mined sources that were unavailable to previous generations of researchers on China.The origins of the iron rice bowl of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment in Chinese factories is traced in this book. It suggests that, in some ways, the Chinese revolution in 1949 was not as revolutionary as most have thought. This is one of a very few books to look comparatively at the Chinese industrial workplace in pre-1949 China and post-1949 China. Frazier has mined sources that were unavailable to previous generations of researchers on China.List of tables; List of acronyms; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Labor management and its opponents, 192737; 3. Welfare and wages in wartime; 4. Takeover policies and labor politics, 194952; 5. Adjusting to the command economy; 6. Enterprise perspectives on the command economy; 7. The rise of 'party committee factories'; 8. Conclusion; Archives consulted; Bibliography; Index. Reveals new perspectives.... This book will be essential reading for scholarlã)