Toleration Group Governance in a Chinese Third Line Enterprise [Hardcover]

This book uncovers the mysterious social and political structures of China's Third Front, the large state-sponsored development of inland China during the late Maoist period. This movement gave birth to a few important industrial bases such as Panzhihua and Liupanshui and had significant impact on megacities such as Lanzhou, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Yet, this is scarcely known to the West and even the younger generation of Chinese. Chen explores the ways that new industrial structures and hierarchies were created and operated, using political and sociological methodologies to understand what is distinctive in the history of the Chinese corporation. This book will be of immense interest to political scientists, sociologists, China scholars, and researchers of alternative economic structures.Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Managerial Control in SOEs from the mid 1970s to the 1980s

Neo-traditionalism: Managerial Control Before 1978

Disorganized Despotism: Managerial Control from 1978 to the 1980s

1.2 Toleration: A Governing Strategy as A Result of Contextual Conditions

The Interconnected Social Networks in Jinjiang Factory

Workers Control on Production in Jinjiang Factory

1.3 Toleration in Practice: the Governance of Absenteeism as An Example

Reinterpretation of Workers Absence

Exchange among Multiple Actors

Tactics for Time and Money

1.4 Methodology

Gaining Access to the Third Liners

Selecting Informants

The Interviews

Other Sources of Data

1.5 Thesis Organization

Chapter 2 The Third Line Construction and Jinjiang Factory

2.1 The Third Line Construction

2.2 Jinjiang Factory: A Representative Third LlC+