Bureaucratic Bargaining in a Decentralized Authoritarian Regime : The Expansion of the Labor Contract System in China
Why does an authoritarian regime improve labor conditions given the lack of representation of working class in the government? Conventional wisdom suggests that concerns about regime stability compel the top leaders to appeal to the working class for support. This paper challenges this statement by arguing that pro-labor policies are put on the government's agenda only when some bureaucratic agencies in the government see developing the pro-labor policies as a way to enhance their bureaucratic status. Through process tracing of China's expansion of the labor contract system to the non-state sectors in the 2000s, I find that the reform was set off by the desire of two Chinese institutions, namely the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the All China Federation of Trade Unions, to take the opportunity to regain their power relinquished by marketization. At the regional level, bureaucratic concern is also the motive power behind province's cooperation with the center's reform agenda. Provincial leaders' bureaucratic struggle and their interaction with the provincial labor departments and the provincial federations of trade unions explain the various patterns of cooperation with the center's regulation of the workforce in the non-state sectors
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2009
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Authors: | Chou, Chelsea Chia-chen |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | China | Autoritarismus | Authoritarianism | Arbeitsvertrag | Labour contract | Dezentralisierung | Decentralization | Bürokratie | Bureaucracy |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments 2009 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205301
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