Format:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520909007
Content:
Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: An Introductory Essay -- The Neo-Traditional Image of Communist Society -- Communist Neo-Traditionalism as a Type-Concept -- Social and Economic Dependence on the Enterprise -- Political Dependence on Management -- Personal Dependence on Superiors -- The Institutional Culture of Authority -- Précis of the Analysis -- 2. The Factory as an Institution: Life Chances in a Status Society -- The Transition to a Communist Pattern -- Demographic Problems and the Administrative Response -- Status Groups in the Labor Force -- The Supply and Allocation of State Sector Jobs -- Social and Economic Aspects of the Employment Relationship -- Labor Mobility and Dependence on the Enterprise -- Mobility and Life Chances in the Enterprise -- The Structured Dependence of the Enterprise Community -- 3. The Party-State in the Factory -- The Party-State and the Working Class -- The Political Organization of the Factory -- The "Foreman's Empire" on the Shop Floor -- The Chinese Work Group System -- Stalinist and Maoist Mobilization: A Comparison -- 4. Principled Particularism: Moral and Political Aspects of Authority -- Social Ties in Ideological Groups -- From Ideological Orientation to Principled Particularism -- Biaoxian and the Flexibility of Rewards and Punishments -- Worker Responses to Moral-Political Authority -- The Substantive Ambiguity of Biaoxian -- 5. Clientelist Bureaucracy: The Factory Social Order -- The Divided Workforce as a Social Fact -- The Official Patron-Client Network -- Cliques and Factions -- Instrumental-Personal Ties -- A Comparative Perspective -- 6. Maoist Asceticism: The Failed Revitalization -- Maoism as a Revitalization Movement -- Trends in Real Wages and Living Standards -- The Inequities of Wage Austerity.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520064706
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520064706
Language:
English
