From Family to Market

Labor Allocation in Contemporary China

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From Family to Market

Labor Allocation in Contemporary China

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This book analyzes Chinese history, politics, and economic development through the lens of labor allocation within the world's largest workforce. Capturing the peculiarities, continuities, and changes in the PRC's institutional structure, Fei-Ling Wang examines the segmented nature of China's labor force today. He points to the rare coexistence of four 'labor allocation patterns:' the traditional family-based system, authoritarian state allocation, community-based labor markets, and the emerging national labor market. China's enduringly stable yet backward institutional structure was based firmly on a mix of family and state institutions; now the addition of market forces highlights the PRC's transitional state. Bolstered with rich case-study detail and Chinese source material, this study argues that the development of labor allocation patterns will profoundly influence China's political and economic development in the coming century.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Introduction: Labor Allocation Patterns and Institutional Structures
Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Labor Allocation Patterns
Chapter 3 Labor Allocation in China: A Short History
Chapter 4 LAPs in the PRC Prior to Deng's Reform
Chapter 5 Chinese Labor Allocation in the 1990s
Part 6 Part II: The Family-Based Traditional Pattern
Chapter 7 The Family and Family-Based LAP
Chapter 8 The Family-Based LAP in China
Chapter 9 The Family-Based LAP and the Chinese Institutional Structure
Part 10 Part III: Authoritarian State Allocation Pattern
Chapter 11 Political Institutions and Labor Allocation
Chapter 12 The Authoritarian State LAP in China
Chapter 13 The Authoritarian State LAP and the Chinese Institutional Structure
Part 14 Part IV: Community-Based Labor Markets
Chapter 15 Community and Community-Based Markets
Chapter 16 Community-Based Labor Markets in China
Chapter 17 Institutional Role of the CLMs
Part 18 Part V: An Emerging National Labor Market
Chapter 19 Opening and FDI: To Import the Market
Chapter 20 The National Labor Market in Contemporary China
Chapter 21 Impact and Prospects of the National Labor Market
Part 22 Part VI: Conclusion: China at the Institutional Crossroads
Chapter 23 Continuity of China's Institutional Structure
Chapter 24 The Institutional Mixture and Transition in Today's PRC
Chapter 25 The Dragon Enters the Nets
Part 26 Part VII: Appendices
Chapter 27 Landmarks of Labor Allocation in the PRC
Chapter 28 Locational Profile of Individuals Interviewed

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Published 26 Mar 1998
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 368
ISBN 9780847688807
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 225 x 149 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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