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