TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zajak,Sabrina
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Transnational Activism, Global Labor Governance, and China
T2  - Non-Governmental Public Action
SN  - 9781349950225
AV  - JF1525.P6 
U1  - 320.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Public policy
KW  - China—History
KW  - Labor law
KW  - Asia—Politics and government
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Trade
KW  - Business
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - History of China
KW  - Labour Law/Social Law
KW  - Asian Politics
N1  - 1. Introduction: Multilevel labor activism, transnational institutions, and China  -- 2. Defining the shadow of the dragon: China’s internal and external strength  -- 3. The international-organizational pathway: The case of the ILO  -- 4. The bilateral pathway: The European Union and China  -- 5. The market pathway  -- 6. The civil society pathway  -- 7. Conclusion: Labor transnationalism in global markets and plural institutional settings.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки
N2  - This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and often punitive, approach to worker organizations. The author examines how the global labor movement can support the improvement of working conditions in Chinese factories. The book presents a novel multi-level approach capturing how trade unions and labor rights NGOs have mobilized along different pathways while attempting to influence labor standards in Chinese supply chains since 1989: within the ILO, within the European Union, leveraging global brands or directly supporting domestic labor rights NGOs. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and China, the book shows that activists, by operating at multiple scales, were on some occasions able to support improvements over time. It also indicates how a politically and economically strong state such as China can affect transnational labor activism, by directly and indirectly undermining the opportunities that organized civil societies have to participate in the evolving global labor governance architecture.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95022-5
ER  -