Restructuring the working class: Labor reform in post-Mao China

Marxism and the Chinese Experience: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Socialism

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 152-168

  White, Gordon ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85065834408     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315289335     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Gordon White, "Urban Unemployment and Labor Allocation Policies in PostMao China, " World Development 10, 8 (1982): 613-32
4. Gordon White, Labor Allocation and Employment Policy in Contemporary China (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1985), p. 7
5. Andrew Walder, Communist Neo-traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986)
6. Gordon White, Industrial Planning and Administration in Contemporary China (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, 1983), pp. 57ff
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18. Yi Durning makes these points, as does a local labor bureau official from Hebei province in Hebei ribao (Hebei daily), April 13, 1982, in FBIS, April 26, 1982
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