With special reference to the steel industry, this article draws upon a politicalinstitutional perspective to examine the progress made in the most recent round of state-enterprise reform in China - the introduction of the Modern Enterprise System and Group Company System. This reform programme...

This paper outlines the economic reform process being undertaken in China and the subsequent partial closure and radical down-sizing of the state-owned enterprise sector. Redundancies arising out the restructuring process have eroded the state-worker contract of the iron rice-bowl. This has...

Books reviewed: Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai. Verso, London and New York, 2002, Reviewed by Andrew Glyn, University of Oxford, Bob Sutcliffe, Bilbao United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions by Alastair J. Reid. Allen Lane, London, 2004, Reviewed by David Metcalf, London School of...

Many initiatives and targets have been developed to address the unsustainable consumption of resources that consider the interconnected impacts and trade‐offs that exist between different resources that are critical for the functioning of human societies and economies. Despite efforts to...

This article documents and analyses the organization of work and human resources management in ten manufacturing plants in Malaysia and three plants in Japan. Each of the plants carries out specific tasks within an emergent international division of labour surrounding two Japanese multinational...

The spread of Lean management has fuelled debates over the changing nature of workplace domination. While Lean discourses often espouse a ‘human relations’ approach, research has suggested the proliferation of coercion systems and questioned whether Lean is instead shorthand for...