Globalization and Labour in China and India

Part I. Introduction

1. Globalization’s Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms
Paul Bowles

Part II. China: Impacts and Responses

2. Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality
Xiao-yuan Dong, Paul Bowles, Hongqin Chang

3. The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Globalized China
Chris King-Chi Chan, Pun Ngai, Jenny Chan

4. Globalization, Structural Reform and Labour Politics in China
Marc Blecher

5. China’s New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?
Wang Haiyan, Richard P. Appelbaum, Francesca Degiuli, Nelson Lichtenstein

Part III. India: Impacts and Responses

6. The Impact of Liberalization and Globalization on India’s Agrarian Economy
V. K. Ramachandran, Vikas Rawal

7. Globalization, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India’s Socially Regulated Informal Economy
Barbara Harriss-White

8. Beyond the Factory: Globalization, Informalization of Production and the Changing Locations of Labour
Kalyan Sanyal, Rajesh Bhattacharya

9. ‘Class’ in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore
Supriya Roychowdhury

10. Labour and Globalization: Union Responses in India
Rohini Hensman

Part IV. International Dimensions and Responses

11. Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism
Greg Flynn, Robert O’Brien

12. Assessing China’s Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal World
Manfred Bienefeld

Part V. Conclusion

13. Concluding Reflections on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India: a Polanyian Perspective
John Harriss

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Economy, International Relations, Asian Politics, Political Sociology, Sociology, general, Political Science