Changes in Labour Institutions in China Engelska 2009

The sustained super performance of the Chinese economy and its impressive record of economic openness have at once caused amazement and concern to countries, pressure groups and common people all over the world. Its impressive performance is held to be largely due to the controversial advantage it enjoys in the labour sector and this has been at the centre of debate and a subject of corrective discourses by the west. China is a big player in the globalisation process and labour institutions in it matter not only for it but also to the world. The stupendous success rate in the economic sphere has come at tremendous social costs. A slew of reform measures aiming to correct the institutional problems and establish a just and harmonious society has been introduced in recent years. But the unfortunate coincidence of economic crisis has not helped the cause of these reform measures. The Chinese policy makers face the unenviable task of maintaining the labour standards and yet cope up with the problems thrown up by the economic slow down.