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Obama in Darwin

From the Wall Street Journal Move Aimed at Countering China in Asia, Clarifying Free Access to South China Sea and President Obama comes to Darwin for the military build up…read here

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China conference

COMPARATIVE CHINESE LABOUR STUDIES CONFERENCE 18-19 NOVEMBER 2011 UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY, BUILDING 10 ROOM 03.330 DAY ONE – FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2011 0900 – 0930 Professor Attila Brungs Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Professor Maurizio Marinelli Director China Research Centre Professor Anita Chan China Research Centre Session One 0930 – 1015 Mary Evans, Liu Mingwei, [...]

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Workers rights in the garment industry

The garment industry from China to the Pacific Rim: strategies for improving work conditions, rights and organising vulnerable workers – A Public Forum followed by Book launch presented by UTS China Research Centre, together with the Asian Women at Work. This forum will connect the issues facing workers, particularly homeworkers in the garment industry in [...]

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US, class and China

The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis by Martin Hart-Landsberg (Originally posted before the hacking on 7/4/2010) Martin Hart-Landsberg (marty@lclark.edu) teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, and is the author with Paul Burkett of China and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2005). The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people [...]

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US economy and China

The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class, and Crisis by Martin Hart-Landsberg The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions. Many, encouraged by mainstream media and politicians, believe that China’s trade policies bear primary responsibility for the structural decay of our economy and that recovery will require, above all, pressuring [...]

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China Labour bulletin report

Will the New Year see a resumption of collective bargaining in China? In December 2009, a magazine article exposed the extent to which labour relations in China had deteriorated over the last year, with enterprises deliberately taking advantage of the government’s leniency during the global financial crisis to exploit their workforce. The writer called on [...]

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China union report

Actually, the number of labour dispute has been escalating since the late of 2008. In the first half of 2009, labour dispute in the Yangtze River Delta increased about 4 folds compared to the same period last year. The labour dispute resolution team is seriously shorthanded with one labour dispute arbitration or judge having to handle over 200 cases in a year. Lack of capacity to solve labour dispute cases further contributes to the rise of unofficial labour actions.

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China’s workers protesting

Going it alone: a new report on the state of the workers’ movement in China China’s workers are taking to the streets in ever increasing numbers. Angered by management abuses, and emboldened by the passage of new labour legislation, they are staging strikes, roadblocks and protests to demand the payment of wages in arrears, better [...]

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Tank Man Tango

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