Working Class In China Research Articles

Discussion on the "Freedom to Strike" in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China

This paper will discuss the issue of strike freedom in China's legal practice. A strike is a collective refusal of work by workers in protest. With the advent of the era of bourgeois revolution, the contradiction between capitalists and their employed workers increased rapidly and became the principal contradiction of society. The working class, which directly creates social value, is increasingly impoverished and unfairly treated. The workers spontaneously rebelled against the capitalist oppressors in various ways. Strikes, as a form of workers' struggle, also appeared in that era. The strike also received warm reviews from Marx and Engels. As the most representative socialist country in the world, the right to strike in the People's Republic of China is not allowed and recognized by law, which leads to a lack of reasonable ways for many workers to defend their rights and interests. This led to a series of social problems and unstable factors, how the development of the rule of law of the Chinese government at the end of the 20th century is related to today's rule of law pattern, and how the Chinese government's attitude towards the strike has changed since the 1950s, all of which need to be discussed and studied. In addition, the thesis focuses on the ordinary working class in China, focuses on the basic demands of the Chinese people, and discusses the right to strike from the perspective of the people.

What are the aims of working-class education in China

This essay explores the aims of working-class education in China. The word ‘working-class’ is seldom used nowadays but social stratification still exists. Different groups of people in working-class changes with social changes so who are the working-class in China now will be identified firstly. The current aims of working-class education in China will be critiqued through four ideologies in education that are highlighted by Schiro (2013). The Social Efficiency Ideology, the Social Recontribution Ideology, the Scholar Academic Ideology in China will be discussed at the same time. Relative theories like aim-based education to achieve flourishing lives (Reiss & White, 2014) and knowledge-based curriculum reported by Young (2013) are relevant in leading education policies and provoking for future schools and education system. Finally, I will conclude the aims of working-class education and give the implications.

Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Working Class Formation

In refuting Guy Standing’s precariat as a class, we highlight that employment situation, worker identity and legal rights are mistakenly taken as theoretical components of class formation. Returning to theories of class we use Dahrendorf’s reading of Marx where three components of classes, the objective, the subjective and political struggle, are used to define the current formation of the working class in China. Class is not defined by status, identity or legal rights, but location in the sphere of production embedded within conflictual capital–labour relations. By engaging with the heated debates on the rise of a new working class in China, we argue that the blending of employment situation and rights in the West with the idea of precarity of migrant workers in China is misleading. Deconstructing the relationship between class and precarity, what we see as an unhappy coupling, is central to the article.

The Study on Social Integration Status of Migrant Workers and Countermeasures

Abstract Migrant workers have become an integral part of the working class in China, gradually become the main force and an indispensable component of urban economic development. But at the same time, migrant workers are not industrial workers defined in China; under the constraints of dual system, they suffer” non-national treatment” in life, employment, children's education and so on, and then enter dilemma. On the basis of taking 300 migrant workers as sample to investigate, the paper anal sizes on integration status in respects of their survival, employment and other levels, and then gives the following countermeasures from four aspects:strengthening vocational education, improving protection measures of labor rights, improving labor market, paying attention to an regulating children's education.

Subsistence Crises, Managerial Corruption and Labour Protests in China

Subsistence Crises, Managerial Corruption and Labour Protests in China

Management of Migrant Labor in Overseas Chinese Enterprises in South China

The migration of labor into overseas Chinese enterprises in South China has been a significant phenomenon in internal migration in China since the early 1980s. This phenomenon has not only changed the structure of traditional Chinese labor markets but has also reduced urban-rural differences in the country. This massive migration, participated mostly by young women of peasant background, has also contributed to the rise of a new migrant working class in China. This article explores the management of migrant labor in overseas Chinese enterprises. Specific issues examined are characteristics of migrant workers and employer-managers, management practices and the impact of management and worker's education in the workplace.