The neo-authoritarian dilemma and the labor force: Control and bankruptcy vs freedom and instability

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 111-133

  Karmel, Solomon M ^a  

^a Chinese Foreign Ministry

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FREE MARKET APPROACH; LABOUR MARKET REFORM; RURAL PROLETARIAT; STATE ENTERPRISE;

CHINA;

EID: 0029798133     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670569608724245     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. For more on neo-authoritarian leaders in China and the contradictions that they face in the reform era, see Solomon M. Karmel, 'The neo-authoritarian contradiction: developmentalist dictatorships and the retreat of the state in Mainland China, PhD Dissertation, Princeton University (June 1995).
2. 'The growth and development of the Chinese urban labor force', Economic Research and Reference (jingji yanjiu cankao-hereafter ERR) 519-520, (3 August 1994), p. 41.
3. Zhang Zhilin, 'On shortening work time for laborers', ERR 486, (4 June 1994), p. 6.
4. Zhang Zhilin cites 20 bankruptcy cases, a small percentage of the total. In 1994, trials on a total number of 1,156 bankruptcy cases were concluded, of which 395 involved state enterprises, an increase of 142% over the previous year. See Ren Jianxin (President of the Supreme People's Court), 'Work Report of the Supreme People's Court', Xinhua, (22 March 1995); Zhang Zhilin, ibid, p. 6.
5. Zhang Zhilin cites 20 bankruptcy cases, a small percentage of the total. In 1994, trials on a total number of 1,156 bankruptcy cases were concluded, of which 395 involved state enterprises, an increase of 142% over the previous year. See Ren Jianxin (President of the Supreme People's Court), 'Work Report of the Supreme People's Court', Xinhua, (22 March 1995); Zhang Zhilin, ibid, p. 6.