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
6 - Interest-Based Collective Action and Firm-Level Patterns of Labor Protests
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 6 analyzes firm-level patterns of collective action and finds that law-abiding firms are more likely to experience collective action for interest-based demands. Using the strike map dataset of the China Labour Bulletin, it shows that interest-based protests are less likely to invite state repression, in part because they do not target state authorities. Contrary to the assumption that those protest that ask more than the legal minimum might be more politically threatening than law-based protests, the findings in this chapter demonstrate that interest-based protests rarely breach the physical boundary of individual firms.
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- Atomized IncorporationChinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise, pp. 161 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023