Dismantling party/state controls in China's state enterprises
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1993
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You, Ji
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This dissertation is a study of the post-Mao industrial reforms and their effects on state/enterprise
relations and on shop-floor politics. These effects are characterised by the progressive dismantling of
party/state controls over the grassroots units. The research focuses on a number of institutional
reforms in China's state sector, including (1) a series of political reforms to the party leadership
structure, the cadre appointment system, management mechanisms, and the enterprise/state
administrative chains; and (2) market reforms with an emphasis on ownership reform, which has
created a hybridized property structure in the state sector and opened a process leading toward quasi-privatisation
of the national economy. The dissertation analyses an emerging new model for China's
market economy as a result of the current reform of the government administrative system; and
reforms that have brought about significant changes in the industrial wage system. Based on both
documentary research and interview fieldwork in China, the author argues that two distinctive trends
in the state sector have emerged: depoliticisation and de-statisation.These two trends have helped to
reconstruct a new social base for political change in China.
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