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Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction Dismantling of Moral Arrangements and Motivations for Resistance Reform and Resistance: A Dual Interaction Notes on the Definition of Laid-Off workers and Data Collection 2 The Ending of a Socialist Contract and Retrenchment Budget Constraints and the End of the Socialist Contract The Government?s Redress Measures and Limitations Problems with Welfare Provisions Government and Laid-Off Workers? Reemployment Impact of Layoffs Workers? Economic Plight Workers? Depression and Resentment 3 Retrenchment and Laid-Off Workers? Responses Laid-off Workers? Responses Statistical Analysis of Workers? Responses Deprivation, Discontent, and Collective Action Individuals and collective action Benefits and individuals? participation Confidence, costs, and participation in collective action 4 Fragmentation and Collective Action Fragmentation and the Difficulty of Collective Action A Means to the End: Individual Action Workers? Declined Status and Ex Ante Job Search Ex Post Job Search Alternatives and Non-Participation The Case of Unpaid Retired Workers 5 Management and Worker Silence Dominance of Management Workers and Ex Ante Resistance Management and Ex Post Resistance Constraints and Management Tactics Institutional Arrangements and Constraints Other Informal Constraints Criteria for Layoffs Management as a Helpless Patron 6 Government and the Prevention of Worker Resistance Targeting the Government Belief and Reaction of the Government Capacity, Constraints, and Government Policies Dispelling the Motivation for Resistance Selective Punishment and the Risk of Action Organizers and Collective Action Punishing Organizers Government Patience and the Cost of Sustained Action 7 Collective Action of Chinese Laid-off Workers Constraints on the Government Local Governments and Political Space in China Constraints and Concessions Mobilization and Collective Action Emergence of Organizers Sufficient Participants Scenarios for Collective Action Scale of Resistance and Reform 8 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Unemployed -- China.
Working class -- China.
Manpower policy -- China.
Industrial management -- China.
Civil society -- China.
China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.