Conflict and Coordination: A Study on Labor-Management Relations in Contemporary Chinese Private Enterprises

Author: Xu Xiaohong
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The reform and opening-up has brought fundamental impacts to Chinese society, primarily through the emergence and development of private economy and labor-capital relations. It marked the "resurrection" of two classes—private entrepreneurs and employed workers, who had been eliminated in the name of revolution. While this revival process was fraught with immense social inequalities, it was the only force that led to profound, drastic, and genuine transformations in China's ownership system, property rights system, social strata, and even its superstructure, political system, and ideology. It shook the Asian society traditionally lacking a private ownership tradition, and it was precisely on this foundation that the ancient China, long stagnant anding, finally integrated into the modern world. Some were bewildered, others exclaimed in shock, and still others sighed in lament, but as the saying goes, "Green mountains cannot hide the eastward flow; what is destined to happen will inevitably happen." This book aims to reveal the secrets behind the revival of labor-capital relations, describe the process of their formation, analyze the impacts they brought, and predict the future trends of their development. In exploring the realities of labor-capital relations, it also forms a native Chinese theoretical framework for labor-capital relations, including theories on the subjects of labor-capital relations, the operational content and environment of labor-capital relations, and the legalization of labor-capital relations.