TY - JOUR
T1 - Disciplinary labor regimes in Chinese factories
AU - Chan, Anita
AU - Zhu, Xiaoyang
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - Using a survey the authors initiated in fifty-four footwear factories in China, this article investigates the extent to which Chinese workers today are subjected to coercive workplace discipline. The authors compare the management practices of state-owned and collective factories, private factories owned by mainland Chinese, and those owned by investors from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The survey selects five indicators of a disciplinary labor regime: corporal punishment, compulsory overtime, discipline vis-à-vis bodily functions (such as toilet-going restrictions), imposition of monetary penalties, and bonding of labor through mandatory deposits.
AB - Using a survey the authors initiated in fifty-four footwear factories in China, this article investigates the extent to which Chinese workers today are subjected to coercive workplace discipline. The authors compare the management practices of state-owned and collective factories, private factories owned by mainland Chinese, and those owned by investors from Hong Kong and Taiwan. The survey selects five indicators of a disciplinary labor regime: corporal punishment, compulsory overtime, discipline vis-à-vis bodily functions (such as toilet-going restrictions), imposition of monetary penalties, and bonding of labor through mandatory deposits.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0346957342&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1467271032000147032
DO - 10.1080/1467271032000147032
M3 - Article
SN - 1467-2715
VL - 35
SP - 559
EP - 584
JO - Critical Asian Studies
JF - Critical Asian Studies
IS - 4
ER -