Afterword: Globalization, Rights, and Work in the Chinese Transformation

China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Chen Yifeng & Ulla Liukkunen eds., Kluwer Law International, 2014

Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-278

9 Pages Posted: 9 Mar 2014 Last revised: 12 Nov 2014

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Teemu Ruskola

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences

Date Written: March 1, 2014

Abstract

This is an afterword to an edited volume considering ILO (International Labor Organization) core labour standards and their implementation in China from a wide range of institutional, geographic, and political viewpoints, as expressed by an array of scholars and policy-makers. This afterword draws on those insights, without attempting to summarize them or provide a synthetic conclusion. Instead, it first considers the larger significance of Chinese labour reforms in relation to other economic reforms and indeed in the context of China’s changing political economy as a whole, and then makes some observations about them from both international and comparative perspectives. In the end, the afterword suggests that analysing the status and implementation of the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work China provides an occasion for us to re-think the organization of workplace authority not only in China but globally.

Keywords: China, labor, ILO, political economy, globalization, commodification, markets

Suggested Citation

Ruskola, Teemu, Afterword: Globalization, Rights, and Work in the Chinese Transformation (March 1, 2014). China and ILO Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Chen Yifeng & Ulla Liukkunen eds., Kluwer Law International, 2014, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-278, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2406120

Teemu Ruskola (Contact Author)

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School ( email )

Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts & Sciences ( email )

Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

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