Disciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories
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2003
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Chan, Anita
Zhu, Xiaoyang
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Taylor & Francis Group
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Using a survey the authors initiated in fifty-four footwear factories in China, this article investigates the extent to which Chinese workers today are subjected to coercive workplace discipline. The authors compare the management practices of state-owned and collective factories, private factories owned by mainland Chinese, and those owned by investors from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The survey selects five indicators of a disciplinary labor regime: corporal punishment, compulsory overtime, discipline vis-à-vis bodily functions (such as toilet-going restrictions), imposition of monetary penalties, and bonding of labor through mandatory deposits.
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Keywords: footwear industry; management practice; working conditions; Asia; China; Eurasia; Far East; Coercion; Corporal Punishment; Discipline; Factories; Industrial Workers; Peoples Republic of China; Working Hours
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Critical Asian Studies
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