"Drawing on a rich set of original oral histories conducted with retired factory workers from industrial centers across … manifesting workers' status as the masters of the workplace, Li argues that Maoist era state-owned enterprises operated … effectively to turn factory workers into a well-disciplined labor force through a complex set of formal and informal institutions …

manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …