Chinese Labor Relations
Chinese Labor Relations
Labor relations in China have become more and more complex, labor conflicts have occurred frequently, and thus labor disputes have been growing with a rate much faster than that of the development of GDP in the past decade. They could become a potential obstacle to the economic development if not appropriately managed. The paper studies the condition of labor relations, and probes the profound reasons for it, and compares it across the world in order to give a description for it.
1. CONDITION OF LABOR RELATIONS IN CHINA
Since the mid of 1990s, accompanied with the deepening of economy reform of China, most social and economic relationships have been undergoing formidable transformation and the social and living style of some community have been greatly changed. The creation of new glossaries such as rural workers, lay-off, work, reemployment reflected the transformation of the period. The simple and harmonic labor relation between the state-owned enterprises and the workers in the system of planned economy has been gradually substituted by that between the employees and the employers of various of different ownerships, underlying the transformation of labor conflicts. The development of labor conflicts could be evidenced by the growing of labor disputes. In accordance with the China Labor Statistical Yearbook, from 1995 to 2012 the labor disputes had grown by 6.9 times, from 33 thousand to 260 thousand per year with an annual growing rate of 31.05 percent, which was 3.6 times the average growing rate of GOP of 8.7 percent at the same time.
In this period, accompanied with the deepening of reform of state-owned enterprises, and the constant development of economy within non-public section, the variation of labor relations and the emergency of labor conflicts drew public attention. Some scholars, labor unions and national authorities of statistics investigated the labor conditions and published many reports, which offer invaluable
Labor relations in China have become more and more complex, labor conflicts have occurred frequently, and thus labor disputes have been growing with a rate much faster than that of the development of GDP in the past decade. They could become a potential obstacle to the economic development if not appropriately managed. The paper studies the condition of labor relations, and probes the profound reasons for it, and compares it across the world in order to give a description for it.
1. CONDITION OF LABOR RELATIONS IN CHINA
Since the mid of 1990s, accompanied with the deepening of economy reform of China, most social and economic relationships have been undergoing formidable transformation and the social and living style of some community have been greatly changed. The creation of new glossaries such as rural workers, lay-off, work, reemployment reflected the transformation of the period. The simple and harmonic labor relation between the state-owned enterprises and the workers in the system of planned economy has been gradually substituted by that between the employees and the employers of various of different ownerships, underlying the transformation of labor conflicts. The development of labor conflicts could be evidenced by the growing of labor disputes. In accordance with the China Labor Statistical Yearbook, from 1995 to 2012 the labor disputes had grown by 6.9 times, from 33 thousand to 260 thousand per year with an annual growing rate of 31.05 percent, which was 3.6 times the average growing rate of GOP of 8.7 percent at the same time.
In this period, accompanied with the deepening of reform of state-owned enterprises, and the constant development of economy within non-public section, the variation of labor relations and the emergency of labor conflicts drew public attention. Some scholars, labor unions and national authorities of statistics investigated the labor conditions and published many reports, which offer invaluable