Hegemonic transformation : the state, laws, and labour relations in post-socialist China
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Hegemonic transformation : the state, laws, and labour relations in post-socialist China
（Series in Asian labor and welfare policies / series editors, Chris Chan, Dae-oup Chang, Khalid Nadvi）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
- : [hbk.]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It illustrates that the labour law system is a crucial vehicle through which the Chinese party-state seeks to secure the working class's consent to the capitalist class's ethno-political leadership. The labour law system has exercised a double hegemonic effect with regards to the capital-labour relations and state-labour relations through four major mechanisms. However, these effects have influenced the Chinese migrant workers in an uneven manner. The affirmative workers have granted active consent to the ruling class leadership; the indifferent, ambiguous and critical workers have only rendered passive consent while the radical workers has refused to give any consent at all.
Table of Contents
Chapter I
Putting the Chinese State in Its Place: The March from Passive Revolution to Hegemony
Chapter II
The Gramscian Approach to the Chinese State
Chapter III
The Legal Foundation for Changing State-Capital-Labour Relations
Chapter IV
Workers' Active Consent
Chapter V
Workers' Passive Consent
Chapter VI
Workers' Refusal to Consent
Chapter VII
Conclusion: The Chinese State, the Law, Labour Relations and Hegemony
Bibliography
Appendix I
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