Globalization and Labour in China and India

Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a 'counter movement from above'. But will this be enough to quell the social unrest?

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RICHARD P. APPELBAUM is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA MANFRED A. BIENEFELD is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Canada RAJESH BHATTACHARYA is with the Centre for Popular Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA MARC BLECHER is Professor of Politics and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, USA CHRIS KING-CHI CHAN is Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong JENNY CHAN is a doctoral candidate at the University of London, Royal Holloway, UK HONGQIN CHANG is a Ph.D candidate at the School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China FRANCESCA DEGIULI is Faculty Fellow in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA XIAO-YUAN DONG is Professor of Economics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, an adjunct professor of the China Centre of Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, China, and co-director of the Chinese Women economic Research and Training Program at CCER GREG FLYNN is a Lawyer and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE is Professor of Development Studies at Oxford University, UK, and Director of Oxford's new Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme and the Master's in Contemporary India ROHINI HENSMAN is an Independent Scholar and writer based in Bombay who has been active in the trade union, women's liberation and anti-war movements in India and Sri Lanka NELSON LICHTENSTEIN is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ROBERT O'BRIEN is the LIUNA-Mancinelli Professor of Global Labour Issues and Chair of the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada V.K. RAMACHANDRAN is with the Social Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India VIKAS RAWAL is with the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India SUPRIYA ROWCHOWDHURY is Professor, Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development at the Institute for Social and Economic Change in Bangalore, India KALYAN SANYAL is Professor of Economics at the University of Calcutta, India HAIYAN WANG is a Lecturer and Assistant Director of the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program at Cornell University, USA.

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PART I: INTRODUCTION Globalization's Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms; P.Bowles PART II: CHINA: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality; X.Dong, P.Bowles & H.Chang The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers' Struggles in Globalized China; C.King-Chi Chan, P.Ngai & J.Chan Globalization, Structural Reform, and Labor Politics in China; M.Blecher China's New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?; H.Wang, R.P.Appelbaum, F.Degiuli & N.Lichtenstein PART III: INDIA: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES The Impact of Liberalisation and Globalization of India's Agrarian Economy; V.K.Ramachandran & V.Rawal Globalisation, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India's Socially Regulated Informal Economy; B.Harriss-White Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour; K.Sanyal & R.Bhattacharya Class in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore; S.Roychowdhury Labour and Globalisation: Union Responses in India; R.Hensman PART IV: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS AND RESPONSES Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism; G.Flynn & R.O'Brien Assessing China's Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal World; M . Bienefeld P ART V: CONCLUSION Concluding Reflections on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India: A Polanyian Perspective; J.Harriss