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Local Strategies of Labor Control: A Case Study of Three Electronics Factories in China

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This article explores production politics and labor conditions in electronics manufacturing in China. With case study analysis of three electronics factories in a production chain at an export processing zone, it examines external factors of labor regulation from local government or international challenges and labor market situations that help shape a sociopolitical environment for local strategies in global production. It also considers some key internal factors of firms—enterprise scale, market capabilities, and requirements of the labor process—that influence work organization on the shop floor. The central argument of this article is that manufacturing factories in the global production apply local conditions to work organization and take different strategies in recruitment and labor control within and beyond the workplace.

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  • Xue, Hong, 2008. "Local Strategies of Labor Control: A Case Study of Three Electronics Factories in China," International Labor and Working-Class History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 73(1), pages 85-103, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ilawch:v:73:y:2008:i:01:p:85-103_00
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    1. Laura Prota & Melanie Beresford, 2012. "The Factory Hierarchy in the Village: Recruitments Networks and Labour Control in Kong Pisei District of Cambodia," Institutions and Economies (formerly known as International Journal of Institutions and Economies), Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, vol. 4(3), pages 103-122, October.
    2. Azmeh, Shamel & Nadvi, Khalid, 2013. "‘Greater Chinese’ global production networks in the Middle East: the rise of the Jordanian garment industry," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 56409, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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