Contagious Capitalism by Gallagher Mary Elizabeth; Gallagher Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth;

Author:Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth; Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth Elizabeth;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2005-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

TABLE 5.3

Collective Disputes, 1996–2002

Source: China Labor Statistical Yearbook, various years (Beijing: China Statistical Publishing).

By 1999, the average size of collective disputes was becoming more similar across different kinds of firms. This seems to indicate that as SOE reform intensified after the Fifteenth Party Congress in 1997, workers in SOEs became more inclined to use the dispute process as a way to resist restructuring and reform. The average number of SOE workers involved in collective disputes jumped from 24.3 in 1996, to 30.8 in 1997, to 40 workers in 1998, compared to an average of 45 workers per collective dispute in FIEs.98 In 1999, there was a slight decline in the average size of collective disputes across foreign and state firms with foreign firms averaging 40.8 persons per dispute and SOEs averaging 31 persons per dispute. The gap in size of collective disputes between foreign and state firms has narrowed over time.

Some regions also seem to show a more marked tendency toward collective labor disputes. In 2001 the top five provinces for collective labor disputes were Guangdong (2,397), Jiangsu (974), Shanghai (612), Hubei (607), and Shandong (556). The average number of workers nationally in 2001 was about 29, but several provinces varied from this considerably. They include Fujian (45.4 workers on average) and Shandong (45.2). In some provinces the predominance of collective disputes is quite striking. In Guangdong and Fujian nearly three out of four workers in a labor dispute are involved in a collective dispute. The rate is two out of three in Liaoning and Shandong, and over four out of five in Jilin and Jiangxi.99 In China’s most developed cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, for example) one sees a more balanced distribution between individual and collective disputes. In areas where labor-intensive manufacturing is quite high or SOE restructuring is quite difficult, one sees a marked rise in collective disputes without the same happening for individual labor disputes.

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