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Waste No Land: Property, Dignity And Growth In Urbanizing China, Eva M. Pils
Waste No Land: Property, Dignity And Growth In Urbanizing China, Eva M. Pils
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
The Chinese state does not allow rural collectives to sell land, but takes land from them and makes it available on the urban property market. While rural land rights are thus easily obliterated, the newly created urban rights in what used to be rural land enjoy legal protection. The state justifies these land takings by the need for urbanization and economic growth. The takings have resulted in an impressive contribution of the construction and property sector to state revenue and GDP growth, but also in unfairness toward peasants evicted from their land and homes. The example discussed here shows that …
The 'Race To The Bottom' Returns: China’S Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
The 'Race To The Bottom' Returns: China’S Challenge To The International Labor Movement, Stephen F. Diamond
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
China is now, and increasingly, an integral player in the global economy and in international relations. Economic and political restructuring in China today is affecting the lives of millions, yet only a small number of top bureaucrats and wealthy regime-backed entrepreneurs are making the basic decisions about the outcome of this process. This bureaucratic and entrepreneurial class resists fiercely any serious attempt to build independent and democratic institutions such as trade unions.
This article will consider four areas of concern. First, the structural changes underway in the Chinese economy are creating both domestic and international imbalances that are exacerbating inequalities …