Unemployment in China: Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets

by Lee; Grace

• ISBN13: 9780415371711
• ISBN10: 0415371716
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment. At the same time, further restructuring is predicted as the full impact of the accession to the WTO is felt throughout the Chinese economy. This book examines the growing problem of unemployment in China, investigating the implications for the economy, human resources and labor-markets. It considers a wide range of important issues, including the macro-economic context, the decline of state-owned enterprises, down-sizing, re-employment policies, human resource management and retraining. Finally, it investigates the unemployment problems in particular cities, appraising the government response, and assessing the prospects for the future.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii
List of figures	ix
List of contributors	xi
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvii
Abbreviations	xix
PART I General	1	(62)
1 Setting the scene: unemployment in China	3	(14)
MALCOLM WARNER AND GRACE O.M. LEE
2 Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China	17	(19)
MICHAEL WEBBER AND ZHU YING
3 Urban unemployment in China: a background analysis (1995-2003)	36	(27)
HU ANGANG AND SHENG XIN
PART II Themes	63	(86)
4 Unemployment in China and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions	65	(22)
NG SEK HONG AND OLIVIA IP
5 Women's employment and public sector restructuring: the case of urban China	87	(21)
XIAO-YUAN DONG, YANG JIANGCHUN, DU FENGLIAN AND SAI DING
6 Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: life stage and family dynamics in unemployed Chinese workers	108	(20)
RICHARD H. PRICE, JIN NAM CHOI AND SANDY LIM
7 No wage and no land: new forms of unemployment in rural China	128	(21)
RACHEL MURPHY AND RAN TAO
PART III Case studies	149	(104)
8 Developing labour market policies in China: the experience of Shanghai	151	(15)
GRACE O.M. LEE AND MALCOLM WARNER
9 Active labour market policies in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	166	(18)
GRACE O.M. LEE AND MALCOLM WARNER
10 Unemployment in the Macao Special Administrative Region	184	(19)
SHUMING ZHAO AND XIANGNAN TAO
11 Steeling for reform: state-enterprise restructuring and the surplus labour question	203	(26)
JOHN HASSARD, JONATHAN MORRIS, JACKIE SHEEHAN AND XIAO YUXIN
12 Downsizing strategies, human resource management and organizational changes in Chinese enterprises	229	(24)
SHUMING ZHAO AND YONGQIANG LIU
PART IV Conclusion	253	(8)
13 Conclusion: unemployment in China	255	(6)
GRACE O.M. LEE AND MALCOLM WARNER
Glossary	261	(2)
Index	263