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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 Publications
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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 …
Teaching Adr In The Labor Field In China, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Teaching Adr In The Labor Field In China, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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The editors have asked us to be quite personal in our ruminations on the future of comparative labor law and policy. For me, over the past several years, the focus has been on China. My first visit to China in 1994, purely as a tourist, was almost by accident. In late September of that year I attended the XIV World Congress of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security in Seoul, South Korea. In the second week of October, I was scheduled to begin teaching a oneterm course in American law as a visiting professor at Cambridge University …