The Chinese Trade Union Goes Abroad: Evidence from Cambodia

Franceschini, Ivan

doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.11168

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“…In Serbia, for instance, the Hesteel Smederevo Steel Plant, acquired by the Chinese provincial state-owned enterprise Hesteel in 2016, successfully pressured the country's Ministry of Labour via the Chinese embassy to water down the legislation on sick leave rights (Rogelja, 2021). In Cambodia, we have documented how the Chinese trade union is engaging with government-aligned local unions, providing them with financial support and training opportunities, a situation which, when combined with the Cambodian government's crackdowns on independent unions, can potentially undermine the local labour movement (Franceschini, 2020b). However, cases in which China's clout is used to undermine existing labour standards remain an exception (at least for the time being) and an examination of the 'predistribution stage' most often shows that Chinese actors are subjected to the same pressures and rules as their competitors and those who came before them.…”

Section: Eroding Labour Standards?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Global China as Method

Franceschini

Loubere²

2022

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Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different 'other' that somehow exists outside the 'real' world. Either implicitly or explicitly, China is generally depicted as an external force with the potential to impact on the 'normal' functioning of things. This core assumption, of China as an orientalised, externalised, and separate 'other', ultimately produces a distorted image of both China and the world. This Element seeks to illuminate the ways in which the country and people form an integral part of the global capitalist system. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Eroding Labour Standards?mentioning

confidence: 99%