ABSTRACT

Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. 

Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and the Group Company Experiments, which began in the 1990s.  It discusses the relations between workers, managers, and the state in post-Dengist China, the implications of the reform programme for human resources management in state enterprises, the nature of labour representation, and organization under tate capitalism and the problems of surplus labour and reemployment.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: Economic transition in theory and practice

chapter 1|23 pages

Theorizing state-enterprise reform

chapter 2|12 pages

Perspectives on China’s reform path

chapter 4|30 pages

Reforming China’s state enterprises

part |2 pages

Part II: Reform programmes, surplus workers and labour unrest

part |2 pages

Part III: Contemporary studies of enterprise restructuring

chapter 8|23 pages

Restructuring Wuhan Iron and Steel

chapter 9|30 pages

Restructuring Tangshan Iron and Steel

chapter 10|4 pages

Conclusion