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The role of the state in influencing work conditions in China's internet industry : policy, evidence, and implications for industrial relations
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Liu, Hong Yu (2023) The role of the state in influencing work conditions in China's internet industry : policy, evidence, and implications for industrial relations. Journal of Industrial Relations, 65 (1). pp. 3-21. doi:10.1177/00221856211068488 ISSN 0022-1856.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1177/00221856211068488
Abstract
While there is growing scholarly interest in work conditions in China's internet industry, many studies have focused exclusively on corporate employment relations strategies. By contrast, the article demonstrates the Chinese government's significant role in shaping the collective work experience in business reality. Drawing on three months of fieldwork in China, the findings suggest that the state's quest for technology supremacy has resulted in internet companies that compete ferociously, which in turn causes extreme working hours and burnout. The censorship of online labour activism and the ambiguity in court decisions also lower the interest of tech workers in organising and defending their labour rights. This study opens up an evidence-based debate on industrial relations in contemporary China and calls for more discussions on the state's role in shaping worker well-being and protection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internet industry -- China, Industrial relations -- China, Information technology -- Economic aspects -- China, Work environment -- China, Employee rights -- China, Human rights -- China, Social responsibility of business -- China, Internet -- Economic aspects -- China, Labor policy -- China | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Industrial Relations | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0022-1856 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2023 | ||||
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Volume: | 65 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-21 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/00221856211068488 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 March 2023 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 March 2023 |
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