From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization

by Mary E. Gallagher and Ching Kwan Lee

In the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. At the same time, however, its employment relations system has undergone a gradual but fundamental transformation from stable and permanent employment with good benefits (often called the iron rice bowl), to a system characterized by highly precarious employment with no benefits for about 40 percent of the population. Similar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450241
• ISBN13: 9780801450242
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher