Hegemonic Transformation The State, Laws, and Labour Relations in Post-Socialist China /

• Main Author: Hui, Elaine Sio-ieng (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Series in Asian Labor and Welfare Policies
• Subjects: Political theory.; Ethnology-Asia.; Economic sociology.; Political sociology.; Sociology.; Political science.; Political Theory.; Asian Culture.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Political Sociology.; Sociology, general.; Political Science.

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establish...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Putting the Chinese State in Its Place: The March from Passive Revolution to Hegemony
• 2. The Gramscian Approach to the Chinese State
• 3. The Legal Foundation for Changing State-Capital-Labour Relations
• 4. Workers' Active Consent
• 5. Workers' Passive Consent
• 6. Workers' Refusal to Consent
• 7. Conclusion. .