As the economic center of China, Shanghai has achieved 8.2% of GDP increasing in 2011, and the GDP per capital reached $ 12 784, which is close to the level of some developed countries. Meanwhile, its urbanization rate has been 89% in 2009, the whole city is going through severe economic and...

Adopting a largely institutional theoretical perspective, this chapter focuses on emerging and developing economies in Africa and Asia, including labor-management relations in South Africa and other jurisdictions in both Africa and Asia. The aim is to assess the effects of changes in the labor...

This chapter examines contemporary labor-management relations in autocratic regimes, drawing on two sets of countries, namely transitional peripheral economies in Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan) and hierarchical market economies in Latin America (Colombia and Honduras), for analysis....