The Resistance of Chinese Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period

By Y. Cai. The China Quarterly, 2002

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Citations in the corpus

• The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories (2010, background): “Antiprivatisation protests were sparked among the SOE workers around compensation and enterprise ownership (Cai, 2002; F. Chen, 2000; 2003a; 2006; Hurst and O’ Brien, 2002; Lee, 2000a; 2002a; 2007a; Yu, 2006).”
• The impact of participative leadership behavior on psychological empowerment and organizational commitment in Chinese state-owned enterprises: the moderating role of organizational tenure (2006, background): “uncertainty among employees and weakened morale as well as the commitment of employees (Cai, 2002; Morris et al., 2001, Weston, 2002).”
• Remaking the World of Chinese Labour: A 30-Year Retrospective (2010, background): “Echoing the waves of radical worker protest during the widespread privatization of the 1990s and early 2000s (Cai 2002; Hurst 2004; Lee 2002), a reported 30,000 people protested in the streets, smashed police cars, and, most significantly, surrounded Chen and beat him to death.”
• The Changing Nature of Labor Unrest in China (2014, background): “…Weston 2004; Pan 2009), with very few exceptions (e.g., Chan and Pun 2009) “few people are willing to take the lead to organize crossfactory action” (Cai 2002: 340), and strikes are “fundamentally cellular in the sense that the ‘cells’ are not combining to form ‘tissues’” (Friedman and Lee 2010:…”
• Economic Transformation and its Political Discontents in China: Authoritarianism, Unequal Growth, and the Dilemmas of Political Development (2006, background): “However, authorities have been willing to placate bereft workers/pensioners demanding their overdue benefits while picking out “ringleaders” (Cai 2002).”