Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Political Costs of Labor Coercion: The Changing Socioeconomic Environment since the 2000s
- 3 Atomized Incorporation: Regime Response to the Changing Environment
- 4 Politicization of Labor Discontent and Blame Attribution
- 5 Workplace Mobilization and Collective Action
- 6 Interest-Based Collective Action and Firm-Level Patterns of Labor Protests
- 7 Discursive Opportunities and Collective Action at Law-Abiding Firms
- 8 State–Labor Relations in the Xi Era and Beyond
- Appendix I: Survey Dataset
- References
- Index
8 - State–Labor Relations in the Xi Era and Beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Political Costs of Labor Coercion: The Changing Socioeconomic Environment since the 2000s
- 3 Atomized Incorporation: Regime Response to the Changing Environment
- 4 Politicization of Labor Discontent and Blame Attribution
- 5 Workplace Mobilization and Collective Action
- 6 Interest-Based Collective Action and Firm-Level Patterns of Labor Protests
- 7 Discursive Opportunities and Collective Action at Law-Abiding Firms
- 8 State–Labor Relations in the Xi Era and Beyond
- Appendix I: Survey Dataset
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 reviews the main arguments of the book, with a discussion about how they can be applied to the new political environment in the Xi era and beyond. The chapter shows that the frequency of atomized protests did not necessarily decline in the Xi era, but its nature changed substantially. The number of interest-based protests declined dramatically, and this could be related to the Xi regimes tighter control over civil society actors such as journalists and labor NGOs. Based on two prominent cases of government crackdown on labor NGOs, the chapter demonstrates that atomized incorporation inevitably requires the regimes continued efforts to monitor and punish defectors. The chapter discusses long-term implications of atomized incorporation by looking at subtle forms of noncooperation.
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- Atomized IncorporationChinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise, pp. 214 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023