Conflict and Coordination (A Study of 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, with 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 by revolution. While this revival process was filled with immense social inequalities, it was the only force that led to profound, drastic, and genuine transformations in China's ownership system, property rights, social strata, and even its superstructure, political system, and ideology. It shook the Asian society lacking a tradition of private ownership, and it was precisely on this basis that the ancient China, long stagnant anding, finally integrated into the modern world. Some were bewildered, some exclaimed in shock, and others sighed in lament, but as the saying goes, "Green mountains cannot hide the eastward flow; what is to be will be." This book aims to reveal the secrets behind the revival of labor-capital relations, describe the process of their formation, analyze the impacts they bring, and predict the trends of their development. In exploring the realities of labor-capital relations, it also forms a native Chinese theoretical system of 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.