G. White sets out to further the understanding of the politics of economic reform by focussing on just one area - labour - and within that, one specific policy - the attempted introduction of a "labour contract system" into state industrial enterprises. Employment policy process in the PRC...

Post-apartheid South Africa is facing three major economic problems: (1) slack economic growth, (2) high and growing unemployment and (3) among the world's highest income inequality and poverty indices. South Africa is currently caught in a macro-economic straight-jacket of tight monetary,...