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The Changing Pattern Of State Workers' Labour Resistance In Shaanxi Province, China, Zhiming Cheng
The Changing Pattern Of State Workers' Labour Resistance In Shaanxi Province, China, Zhiming Cheng
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
State workers in China have been suffering multiple negative shocks due to state sector reforms and massive lay-offs since the 1990s. One of their responses has been to engage in conventional forms of rightful resistance to assert their rights and benefits. The recent development of such labour resistance, however, has been less studied. This paper examines the recent collective rights action among state workers in Shaanxi province to examine the evolving pattern of resistance that changed from relatively non-threatening to radical, and from offline to a mixture of real-life and cyberspace actions. Because the recent movements directly challenged the authoritarian …
At The Coalface: Storying Resistance To The Managerial Imposition Of A New Performance Appraisal System, Patrick Dawson, Peter Mclean
At The Coalface: Storying Resistance To The Managerial Imposition Of A New Performance Appraisal System, Patrick Dawson, Peter Mclean
Faculty of Business - Papers (Archive)
This study explores contested change at Glenrothes Colliery and the way that stories emerge are challenged, developed, redefined and shared as part of a continuing dialogue and storying process as miners sought to reassert their sense of collective identity. We argue for a broader conceptualisation of story that moves beyond the confines of folklorist tradition with a focus on retrospective narrative analysis to one which is able to accommodate the temporal, contextual, and political nature of stories as employees make sense and give sense to the changes imposed by management that threatened their collective sense of identity.