TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond organized dependence : a study of workers' actual and perceived living standards in Guangzhou
AU - MOK, Ka Ho, Joshua
AU - CAI, He
PY - 1999/3/1
Y1 - 1999/3/1
N2 - The economic reforms of the late 1970s in China have raised general living standards particularly in the coastal urban areas. At the same time, however, they have increased unemployment and widened inequalities. This article examines these issues in Guangzhou, one of the cities where market principles dominate, by looking at workers' actual living standards as well as how they perceive them. Clearly workers in private and semi-private industries have bene fited from the economic reforms while employees of state owned industries feel betrayed and left behind. This has both social and political implications.
AB - The economic reforms of the late 1970s in China have raised general living standards particularly in the coastal urban areas. At the same time, however, they have increased unemployment and widened inequalities. This article examines these issues in Guangzhou, one of the cities where market principles dominate, by looking at workers' actual living standards as well as how they perceive them. Clearly workers in private and semi-private industries have bene fited from the economic reforms while employees of state owned industries feel betrayed and left behind. This has both social and political implications.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/1390
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033084428&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/09500179922117791
DO - 10.1177/09500179922117791
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0950-0170
VL - 13
SP - 67
EP - 82
JO - Work, Employment and Society
JF - Work, Employment and Society
IS - 1
ER -