The Adjustment of Labour Relations : From “Power Control” to “Game Behaviour”?

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The Adjustment of Labour Relations : From “Power Control” to “Game Behaviour”? Li, Qi

Abstract

The 2010 strikes demanding wage increases that swept through the eastern coastal regions of China expressed the lack of effective internal adjustment mechanisms of labor relations in Chinese enterprises. This paper points out that, due to China’s market transition and imbalance of power between labor and capital, labor relations are “employer-led”, whereas the government, based on the considerations of political stability and economic development, has been adopting the “power control” model to adjust labor relations. In general, the employment relationships have become the main form of labor relations in China, which is featured as “zero-sum” game, and “employer-led” imbalanced labor relations.

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Title	The Adjustment of Labour Relations : From “Power Control” to “Game Behaviour”?
Creator	Li, Qi
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Peter A. Allard School of Law; Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution
Date Issued	2017
Description	The 2010 strikes demanding wage increases that swept through the eastern coastal regions of China expressed the lack of effective internal adjustment mechanisms of labor relations in Chinese enterprises. This paper points out that, due to China’s market transition and imbalance of power between labor and capital, labor relations are “employer-led”, whereas the government, based on the considerations of political stability and economic development, has been adopting the “power control” model to adjust labor relations. In general, the employment relationships have become the main form of labor relations in China, which is featured as “zero-sum” game, and “employer-led” imbalanced labor relations.
Subject	labour relations; “power control” model; All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU); hidden mechanism; collective bargaining
Genre	Working Paper
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2017-09-12
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0355544
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63019
Affiliation	Non UBC
Citation	APDR Working Paper Series, Vol. 4, no. 1
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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