While mainstream accounts of globalization are telling us that liberalization is essential for engendering the conditions of prosperity across the world, we argue that selective interventions are necessary to ensure that these processes open the path to the high road to industrialization. While...

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction and Argument -- Part I. Informalization and the State -- 2. The Informalization of the Chinese Labor Market -- 3. Legislating Harmony: Labor Law Reform in Contemporary China -- 4. Social Policy and Public Opinion in an Age of Insecurity -- Part II....