Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction and Argument -- Part I. Informalization and the State -- 2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market -- 3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary China -- 4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of Insecurity -- Part II....

Locating a discourse in transition -- The origins of China's discourse of workers' democracy -- China's post-Mao political economy in transition -- The discourse of workers democracy and economic restructuring in post-Mao China: the 1980s -- The 1990s: Chinese privatization and reframed...