In the spring of 1957, a strike wave of monumental proportions rolled across the city of Shanghai. The author examines the causes of the strike wave, style of protest, divisions among the workers and state-society relations. According to her, the strikes of the mid-1950s in the PRC can enable us...

Through out most of the Mao years in both state and collective enterprises the harsh and abrupt terminations of capitalist labour markets were unusual; also absent were freedom of job choice and competition between firms for selection of the best qualified employees. Between 1978 and 1986 the...

Measures of society's stock of fixed assets are necessary for describing production technology, evaluating capital-output ratios and analysing multifactor productivity. While recognizing the inherent difficulty of compiling capital stock estimates for an economy in which prices have long...

According to the author, in the late 1970s, Chinese industry was on the verge of collapse. Its high but erratic level of growth since 1949 had been achieved by using ever-increasing amounts of labour and capital. By 1978, the Chinese Communist Party leadership understood the economic problems...

Employment in the Chinese industrial state enterprise sector is multifaceted. The bulk consists of regular state workers. Quite apart from the recent contract workers, however, such employment also consists of members of large and small collectives for which the state enterprises is the patron...