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Feng Xu
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      Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate in the West. This book argues that although China is not a liberal democracy, it has turned to neo-liberal forms of governance to deal with unemployment, which now function alongside pre-existing Chinese modes of governance. This book examines the initiatives which represent China’s attempt to institutionalize and humanize its approach to governance: these initiatives include training programmes; counselling; a web-based national labour-market information network; insurance; and using community (shequ) organizations as the base for new mechanisms of governance and informal job generation. Based on extensive original research including semi-structured interviews, the book discusses the ways in which the government combines the new techniques with old campaign-style policy techniques. The author argues that these multiple modes of governance make the state's power visible in the new Chinese labour market, and at the same time run the risk of policy incoherence or even failure.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Feng Xu EAN: 9780415559683 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 520 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-12-13 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      China, c 1990 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Sociology: work and labour, Labour / income economics

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      Feng Xu is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  She is the author of Women Migrant Workers in China’s Economic Reform (2000).
      Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate in the West. This book argues that although China is not a liberal democracy, it has turned to neo-liberal forms of governance to deal with unemployment, which now function alongside pre-existing Chinese modes of governance. This book examines the initiatives which represent China’s attempt to institutionalize and humanize its approach to governance: these initiatives include training programmes; counselling; a web-based national labour-market information network; insurance; and using community (shequ) organizations as the base for new mechanisms of governance and informal job generation. Based on extensive original research including semi-structured interviews, the book discusses the ways in which the government combines the new techniques with old campaign-style policy techniques. The author argues that these multiple modes of governance make the state's power visible in the new Chinese labour market, and at the same time run the risk of policy incoherence or even failure.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Feng Xu EAN: 9780415559683 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 520 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-12-13 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      China, c 1990 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Sociology: work and labour, Labour / income economics

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      Feng Xu is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  She is the author of Women Migrant Workers in China’s Economic Reform (2000).

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