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Beyond Organized Dependence: A Study of Workers' Actual and Perceived Living Standards in Guangzhou

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  • Ka-ho Mok

    (Department of Public and Social Administration City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue KOWLOON, Hong Kong)

  • Cai He

    (Department of Sociology Zhongshan University CHINA)

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The economic reforms of the late 1970s in China have raised general living standards particularly in the coastal urban areas. At the same time, however, they have increased unemployment and widened inequalities. This article examines these issues in Guangzhou, one of the cities where market principles dominate, by looking at workers' actual living standards as well as how they perceive them. Clearly workers in private and semi-private industries have benefited from the economic reforms while employees of state owned industries feel betrayed and left behind. This has both social and political implications.

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  • Ka-ho Mok & Cai He, 1999. "Beyond Organized Dependence: A Study of Workers' Actual and Perceived Living Standards in Guangzhou," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 13(1), pages 67-82, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:13:y:1999:i:1:p:67-82
    DOI: 10.1177/09500179922117791
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