Chinese Migrant Worker Representation and Institutional Change: Social or Centralist Corporatism?
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Richard Croucher
This article argues that the Chinese state has more highly articulated policies to deal with social disturbance than previously recognized by specialists. It does so by highlighting and critically analyzing the policies followed to improve the opportunities for migrant worker representation. The state has adopted a three-pronged policy. It has improved migrant worker rights, encouraged the official unions to help enforce these rights and allowed NGOs to offer certain services. The official unions are encouraged to adopt a legal watchdog role by a combination of legislation and limited external organizational competition. We argue that the dynamic of organizational competition is a previously unrecognized factor in moving China in a 'socialist corporatist' direction.
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- The Transformation of Land Law in Indonesia: The Persistence of Pluralism
- Chinese Migrant Worker Representation and Institutional Change: Social or Centralist Corporatism?
- Plurality in the Broadcasting Sector: An Agency Cost Analysis of the Regulation in Japan
- Financial Regulation in Hong Kong: Time for a Change
- Secularism, the Islamic State and the Malaysian Legal Profession
- Malaysia's Electoral System: Government of the People?
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- Review of Emergencies and the Limits of Legality
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- Review of Legal Education in Asia
- Review of Corporate Governance and Financial Reform in China's Transition Economy
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