TY - JOUR
T1 - Bottom-Up Unionization in China
T2 - A Power Resources Analysis
AU - Hui, Elaine Sio ieng
N1 - Funding Information:
The article was presented in XIII Global Labour University Conference, XIX International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology and the LERA 71st Annual Meeting. The author would like to thank the participants for their feedback. Also, the author is indebted to Sarosh Kuruvilla, Mark Anner, Chunwing Lee and Dan DiMaggio for their valuable comments on the article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Drawing on the modified power resources approach, this article examines efforts at bottom-up unionization by rural migrant workers in China. Prior to 2010, they utilized their associational power to pursue predominantly immediate economic interests, but since 2010, they have begun to deploy associational power, and societal power at times, in attempts to form enterprise unions that could provide them with workplace institutional power. Through three revelatory in-depth case studies, the article investigates the efforts made by workers to unionize and the strategies used by employers, the state and the upper-level unions to suppress them. It highlights that the attainment and exercise of workers’ power do not only play out in relation to employers but are also dependent on the role of the state and its apparatus.
AB - Drawing on the modified power resources approach, this article examines efforts at bottom-up unionization by rural migrant workers in China. Prior to 2010, they utilized their associational power to pursue predominantly immediate economic interests, but since 2010, they have begun to deploy associational power, and societal power at times, in attempts to form enterprise unions that could provide them with workplace institutional power. Through three revelatory in-depth case studies, the article investigates the efforts made by workers to unionize and the strategies used by employers, the state and the upper-level unions to suppress them. It highlights that the attainment and exercise of workers’ power do not only play out in relation to employers but are also dependent on the role of the state and its apparatus.
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U2 - 10.1111/bjir.12593
DO - 10.1111/bjir.12593
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100118162
SN - 0007-1080
VL - 60
SP - 99
EP - 123
JO - British Journal of Industrial Relations
JF - British Journal of Industrial Relations
IS - 1
ER -