Alienated politics: Labour insurgency and the paternalistic state in China

Development and Change

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1001-1018

  Friedman, Eli ^a  

^a School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR POLICY; LABOR RELATIONS; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; STATE ROLE; STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 85027940916     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12114     Document Type: Article

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