Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses

PART I: INTRODUCTION Globalization's Problematic for Labour: Three Paradigms; P.Bowles PART II: CHINA: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES Managing Liberalization and Globalization in Rural China: Trends in Rural Labour Allocation, Income and Inequality; X.Dong, P.Bowles & H.Chang The Role of the State, Labour Policy and Migrant Workers' Struggles in Globalized China; C.King-Chi Chan, P.Ngai & J.Chan Globalization, Structural Reform, and Labor Politics in China; M.Blecher China's New Labour Contract Law: Is China Moving Towards Increased Power for Workers?; H.Wang, R.P.Appelbaum, F.Degiuli & N.Lichtenstein PART III: INDIA: IMPACTS AND RESPONSES The Impact of Liberalisation and Globalization of India's Agrarian Economy; V.K.Ramachandran & V.Rawal Globalisation, the Financial Crisis and Petty Commodity Production in India's Socially Regulated Informal Economy; B.Harriss-White Beyond the Factory: Globalisation, Informalisation of Production and the New Locations of Labour; K.Sanyal & R.Bhattacharya Class in Industrial Disputes: Case Studies from Bangalore; S.Roychowdhury Labour and Globalisation: Union Responses in India; R.Hensman PART IV: INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS AND RESPONSES Using Domestic Legal Tools to Further Western Labour Internationalism; G.Flynn & R.O'Brien Assessing China's Future Possibilities in an Unstable Neoliberal World; M . Bienefeld P ART V: CONCLUSION Concluding Reflections on Globalization(s) and Labour in China and India: A Polanyian Perspective; J.Harriss