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This Book Explores The Diverse Nature Of Chinese Workplaces And Workforce Experiences. Considering A Wide Range Of Issues And Different Types Of Workplace, It Outlines The Critical Changes In China's Work And Employment Over The Last Decade, Including The Shortage Of Skilled Labour, The Emergence Of Service Industry, And Changes To The Ways In Which Unions Influence The Chinese Labour Market. Pt. I: Putting Change In Context: -- Transition To A Socialist Market Economy: Factor Markets, Management And Human Resources In China -- Chinese Business Systems And The Challenges Of Transition -- Changing Legislative And Institutional Arrangements Facing China's Workplace -- Pt. Ii: Emerging Dynamics In Labour Markets -- Change And Continuity In China's Urban Workforce: Recent Trends -- Local Labour Markets -- Education, Training And Skills -- Skill Shortages: Where Labour Supply Problems Meet Employee Poaching -- Remaking China's Working Class: Gongren And Nongmingong -- Pt. Iii: China's Changing Workplace: Emerging Divergence -- Human Resource Management And Employment Relations In State-owned Enterprises -- Foreign-invested Fi Rms And Their Human Resource Management: Beyond The Early Transition Period -- People Management Practices In Family Firms -- Hrm And Employment In The Service Industry -- Pt. Iv: Change, Divergence And Disparity: Some Consequences -- Institutional Conditions For Organizing Decent Work In Global Production Networks -- Labour Market Disparities And Inequalities -- Chinese Trade Unions In Transition: A Three-level Analysis -- Employer Coordination And Employer Associations. Edited By Peter Sheldon... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.