How China’s Deskilled Factories Will Lead to a Low Carbon World: Who Wins, Who Loses?

27 Pages Posted: 13 May 2011 Last revised: 26 May 2014

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Rohan Price

University of Tasmania - Faculty of Law; Dalian Maritime University Law School

Kong Shan Ho

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - School of Law; Kingston University, Department of Law; Manchester Metropolitan University - School of Law

Date Written: May 11, 2011

Abstract

This paper addresses the following matters:

(1) how deskilled factory production came to China and why it will be relied on by the West to transition to a low carbon economy;

(2) the equity concerns of solving global warming through reliance on Chinese-produced carbon-abating technology;

(3) what other policy and political measures are being used by China to combat climate change; and

(4) Given that much of the profit emerging from China is channelled into foreign pockets, a form of economic colonialism can be argued to exist under which China suffers a “double whammy”: it is liable for mitigating GHGs of foreign investors and consumers and its workers continue to struggle through life with demeaningly low pay.

Keywords: Global Warming, Deskilling, China, Environment, Low Carbon Technology Industries

JEL Classification: N55, O13, Q20, Q28

Suggested Citation

Price, Rohan B.E. and Ho, Kong Shan, How China’s Deskilled Factories Will Lead to a Low Carbon World: Who Wins, Who Loses? (May 11, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1838922 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1838922

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