Abstract
By examining the contradictions in China’s model of growth and the shifting dynamics of its place in the global division of labour, the aim of this paper is to understand the tensions in the class relations that underpin the Chinese ‘success story’. The theoretical lens will be that of uneven and combined development. The notion of ‘combined’ informs the way in which China’s integration with global capitalism and global circuits of capital has been a major source of its meteoric growth, but has increased its economic vulnerability, particularly after the 2008 crisis. The element of unevenness explores the differentiation between and within sectors and regions, and the way that the inherent dynamics of equalisation and differentiation, and the role of labour within these processes, underpin the dynamics of China’s insertion into the global divisions of labour.
Highlights
After meteoric rates of growth, averaging nearly 10 per cent for two decades, in 2015 China was officially declared to be the world’s largest economy
The aim of this article is to contextualise these tensions in class relations in general, and labour relations in particular, by elaborating a political-economy of China in the global division of labour in which an increasingly restive Chinese working class, that is the subject of this special issue, can be located
Unevenness is reinforced, as we are witnessing, by the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis differentiated by sector and region
Summary
Citation for published version: Jane Hardy, ‘China’s Place in the Global Divisions of Labour: An Uneven and Combined Development Perspective’, Globalizations, Vol 14 (2): 189-201, February 2017. Document Version: This is the Accepted Manuscript version. The version in the University of Hertfordshire Research Archive may differ from the final published version. China’s Place in Global Divisions of Labour: An Uneven and Combined Development Perspective. Jane Hardy Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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