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This article provides a nuanced understanding of various societal actors who work towards enhancing labour protection in contemporary China, which are labelled as “labour watchdogs”. Based on extensive field research between 2008 and 2012, the authors offer an analysis of labour watchdogs and their activities in Nanjing. Labour watchdogs complement formal enforcement by the labour bureaucracy and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU); facilitate workers’ bottom-up legal activism; and put pressure on employers directly and indirectly to improve working conditions. This article shows that labour watchdogs have an unintended yet notable complementary effect on labour protection in China, a country that lacks an independent, strong labour movement.
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183136
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With the ideological undergirding of Marxism–Leninism, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has claimed representation of peasants and workers in its vanguard role in actualising the socialist revolution. However, as China has developed economically over the past four decades, there has been an erosion in the status of workers and peasants as legitimate stakeholders in governance and ruling practices. This article attempts to map how labour, once a critical component of the CPC’s political–ideological invocation, has become peripheral as China transitioned to a market economy with an emphasis on economic rationale for growth and reforms. It examines the changing contours of the CPC’s discourse and practice over the past 100 years on the labour question, sandwiched as it is between the need for continued economic growth as a legitimating tool and the continued reiteration of being representative of the working class.
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