Paradoxes of Labour Reform : Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to Market

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Labour Theory and Practice and the Making of a Market: An Introduction; 1.1 The Issue; 1.2 Chinese Labour and the Making of a Market: An Overview and Some Basic Assumptions; 1.3 Labour Theory regarding the Market: Some Preliminary Notes and a Breakdown into Periods; 1.4 Précis of the Research; 2. Distribution According to What? From Politics to Labour; 2.1 Ownership and Distribution: The Limits of the Chinese Debate; 2.2 'Distribution According to Labour' (DATL): Rehabilitation of a Socialist Principle

2.3 The 1977 Conferences: The Rehabilitation of Dismantled Ideologies2.4 The 1978 Fourth Conference on DATL: Writing the Line for the Plenum; 2.5 Towards an Enlargement of the Labour Debate; 3. Back to the Future: The Initial Paths of Labour Reform (1977-1983); 3.1 Productivity Boost and Social Discontent: The Contradictory Roots of Labour Reform; 3.2 Distribution and Wages: The First Focus of Labour Reform; 3.3 A New Contradiction: Employment and Efficiency; 3.4 Enterprises: Reforming the Danwei System; 4. What is Labour? Towards the Marketisation of Labour Relations (1984-1991)

4.1 From Distribution to Employment: Labour Relations and Social Constraints4.2 A Changing Policy Strategy: Labour Relations Discussed; 4.3 Labour Contracts and the Nature of Labour Relations; 5. The Contractualisation of Labour Relations; 5.1 A 'Structural' Economic Reform; 5.2 The Labour Contract; 5.3 Contracts and Labour Mobility: Moving the Dual Market to the Cities; 5.4 From Work-Unit to Employer; 6. Beyond Socialist Labour: The Labour Market Debate in the 1990s; 6.1 Labour Market: An Open Issue; 6.2 The Mechanism of Labour Allocation; 6.3 The Reshaping of Labour Relations

6.4 Conclusion7. Epilogue: Labour Market and the State: Informalisation or Institutionalisation?; 7.1 Informalisation and the Labour Market; 7.2 The Labour Market and the Floating Population; 7.3 Working for a Boss: The Case of the Construction Industry; 7.4 Ethnic Economies: The Case of Ethnic Villages in Beijing; 7.5 The 'Mechanism' of Formal Labour Markets; 7.6 Mobility and Immobility in the Labour Market; 7.7 A Highly Institutionalised Labour Market; 7.8 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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