The challenges of global capitalism : unemployment and state workers' reactions and responses in post-reform China
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
International Journal of Human Resource Management
Publication Date
5-1-2002
Volume
13
Issue
3
First Page
399
Last Page
415
Publisher
Routledge
Keywords
China, coping strategies, labour, state workers, state-owned enterprises, unemployment
Abstract
As China enters the twenty-first year of reform, the success of its economic policies has been widely recognized. But what is also true is that economic reforms initiated in the past decades, particularly the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, have inevitably marginalized state workers - the 'masters of socialist China'. Workers in private and non-state sectors might have benefited from the economic reforms but state workers of most state-owned enterprises feel bitterly left behind. The aim of this article is to examine the perception of state workers of the causes of organizational difficulties, their worries in face of redundancy and their coping strategies. Observations made in this study are based on field interviews and questionnaire survey of 649 state workers in Beijing, Shenyang and Zhejiang from 1996 to 1999.
DOI
10.1080/09585190110111440
Print ISSN
09585192
E-ISSN
14664399
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Mok, K.-h., Wong, L., & Lee, G. O. M. (2002). The challenges of global capitalism: Unemployment and state workers' reactions and responses in post-reform China. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(3), 399-415. doi: 10.1080/09585190110111440