Some assembly required : work, community, and politics in China's rural enterprises / Calvin Chen
- Bib ID:
- 4365972
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Chen, Calvin, 1968-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008
- xii, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780674027831
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 302.
- Summary:
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"One linchpin of China's ongoing expansion has been township and village enterprises (TVEs), a vast group of firms with diverse modes of ownership and structure. Based on the author's fieldwork in two TVEs in Zhejiang, this book seeks to explore and understand the emergence and success of rural enterprises. This study also examines how ordinary rural residents have made sense of and participated in the industrialization engulfing them in recent decades."
"The author argues that the resilience of these factories has as much to do with how authority is defined and exercised and how people interact and cooperate as it does with the ability to generate profits. How social capital was deployed and replenished at critical moments was central to the eventual rise and consolidation of these enterprises as effective, robust institutions. Without high levels of mutual respect, trust, and cooperation, company leaders would have found it nearly impossible to improve their firms' productivity, workplace stability, and long-term viability."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: The Emergence of China's Rural Enterprises
- 2. Seeds of Transformation: Ecology, Society, and Politics in Two Townships
- 3. Enterprise Survival: Ensuring Industrial Success
- 4. Enterprise Expansion: Mass Production and Centralization
- 5. Enterprise Reintegration: Reconsidering Growth and Community
- 6. Conclusion: What Lies Ahead?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-218) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Harvard University. Asia Center
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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