This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions, and demonstrates that labour unrest is the prin

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, worker resistance in China increased rapidly despite the fact that certain segments of the state began movi

China’s leaders aspire to the prosperity, political legitimacy, and stability that flowed from America’s New Deal, but they are irrevocably opposed to the i

A reference source on the world trade union movements, this edition covers every country, with sections on: the Political and Economic Background; Trade Unionis

As the "world’s factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had to adjust to a new global political and economic