Abstract
The incidents of collective labor disputes resonantly occur under some conditions in manufacturing industry of Yangtze River Delta Region (2011-2015). Trigger factors include the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure, the high liquidity of light industry asset, the exploitation of private and foreign companies, the participation of a large number of labors and the depriving of economic interests of the workers. Study found that the labor conflicts occur more often in abnormal production changes of manufacturing than in normal one, more in light industry than heavy one, more in private enterprises than other ones, more in large-scale enterprises than small-scale ones and more for economic requests of participants than for noneconomic ones.
Highlights
Yangtze River Delta region is the most economically developed area in China, which lies in the East China area, and includes three administration regions such Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province
Ownership is multiple with public ownership, private ownership and mixed ownership enterprise, in which private enterprises accounted for 83% of the total number of manufacturing enterprises in Yangtze River Delta
From 2011 to 2015, the growth rate of manufacturing output reduced year by year in Yangtze River Delta region, which has been less than 6.2%, while the unemployment rate of manufacturing registered is as high as 3%
Summary
Yangtze River Delta region is the most economically developed area in China, which lies in the East China area, and includes three administration regions such Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province. River Delta region (Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province), accounting for 19% of gross national product. Based on the statistics of the club bureau of human resource in Yangtze River Delta region (see figure 1), there are 708 mass labor disputes cases (accounting for 14% during the same period 5021 cases of mass labor disputes in China) happened in the Yangtze River Delta region during 2011-2015. The labor disputes increase, which accompanied by 11, 23, 58, 126 and 154 year by year in Yangtze River Delta region during 2011-2015. It is necessary to separate the abnormal production from the whole manufacturing production when the industry conflicts are analyzed
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