Government Enterprises & Industrial Relations in Late Qing China

Autor:	David Pong
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	History Government Market economy Economy Political science Political Science and International Relations Industrial action Capitalism Industrial relations China
Zdroj:	Australian Journal of Politics and History. 47:4-23
ISSN:	1467-8497 0004-9522
DOI:	10.1111/1467-8497.00216
Popis:	This study examines the development of labour organisation and industrial action among workers in government enterprises in the late Qing (1860-1912). Because these were the largest industrial enterprises using the most advanced machinery, one expects that the workers in them would play the leading role in labour organisation. Further, during the centuries-long gestation period, the period of embryonic capitalism, workers in traditional enterprises had already developed a tradition of industrial action. Yet this tradition of protest did not appear to have contributed much to labour activism in the modern government works. Quite the contrary, it was in private industries, whether Chinese- or foreign-owned, that we find a higher level of labour organisation and activism. This is an unexpected discovery, for which an explanation is attempted.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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