Chan, AnitaZhu, Xiaoyang2015-12-131467-2715http://hdl.handle.net/1885/86875Using 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.Keywords: footwear industry; management practice; working conditions; Asia; China; Eurasia; Far East; Coercion; Corporal Punishment; Discipline; Factories; Industrial Workers; Peoples Republic of China; Working HoursDisciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories200310.1080/14672710320001470322015-12-12