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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
20122012
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
462
Publishing info:
Cologne : University of Cologne
Table of Contents:
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: Multilevel labor activism, transnational institutions, and China
1.1 Multilevel activism in the shadow of a strong and non-democratic state
1.2 The problem of multiple institutional contexts as an environment for transnational activism
1.3 China—the untouchable giant?
1.4 Aim of the dissertation and research questions
1.5 Research design, case selections, and data sources
1.6 Key findings of this dissertation
1.7 Structure of the dissertation
2. Reconstructing theories on globalization, institutions, and transnational activism
2.1 Trade Unions, NGOs, and China: defining forms of transnational activism
2.2 Identifying major concepts and blind spots in the literature
2.2.1. Transnational activism within social movement theory and international relations
2.2.2. Economic globalization, transnational institution building and change
2.3. Analytical framework: theorizing transnational pathways of influence
2.3.1 From multilevel opportunities to studying interdependent transnational pathways of influence
2.3.2 Institutional environments and action repertoires: intra-pathway dynamics
2.3.4 Inter-pathway dynamics
2.3.5 Interplay between the global and the local
2.3.6 The special case of the capacity pathway
2.4 Summary and overview of analytical dimensions for the study of transnational pathways of influence
3. Defining the shadow of the dragon: China’s internal and external strength
3.1. China’s economic liberalization without political liberalization
3.2 The emergence of different production regimes
3.3 A new working class in the making and the grievances of migrant workers
3.4 Worker unrest and the responses of the political regime
3.5 The evolution of the Chinese labor law
3.6 Barriers to implementing the national labor law
3.7 The changing state-society relationship: the evolution of NGOs
4. Transnational activism within the international-organizational pathway. The case of the ILO
4.2 Three facets of labor activism from above, aside and from within
4.2.1 Activism from above: international union complaints and diagnostic struggles about the rule of law in China
4.2.2 Activism from aside: the constitution of transnational linkages and the changing relationship of the ICFTU towards the ACFTU
4.2.3 Activism from below? China state agencies as gate keepers for transnational domestic opportunities
4.3 Summary and conclusion: Union strategies and China’s selective responsiveness
5. Transnational activism in the bilateral pathway: the European Union’s relations to China
5.1 Mapping the opportunity structure in Europe’s changing trade and labor agenda
5.1.1 The participatory turn in the EU’s new trade and labor agenda
5.1.2 The Europe-China trade relations
5.2 The fragmented mobilizing structure within Europe
5.3 Forms of labor-rights activism within the EU-China trade relations
5.3.1. Unions and NGOs within EU institutions: consultation and lobbying
5.3.2 Evolving activism from aside? Institutionalizing transnational exchange in EU-China relations
5.3.3 Ad-hoc labor advocacy work in EU-China dialogues
5.4 Interregional relations and participation of labor advocates: the Asia-Europe Meeting
5.5 Summary and Conclusion: increasing resonance and exclusive access
6. Transnational activism in the market pathway
6.1 Intra- and inter-pathways developments: the creation of opportunities in the market
6.1.1 Activism from within. Unstable access and voice in MSIs
6.1.2 Transnational industry wide campaigns
6.1.3 Rising or diminishing opportunities for labor advocates in the market pathway? Summary of the findings
6.2 The global-local link: the outcomes of multistakeholder regulation
6.2.1 Corporate Social Responsibility with “Chinese characteristics”
6.2.2 The coevolution and interaction of transnational and state institutions
6.2.3 Summary and overview on the different modes of interaction
6.3 Summary and Conclusion: multiple opportunities but little outcomes
7. The capacity-building pathway
7.1 The domestic political and institutional context: from closed opportunities to enabling and constraining factors
7.1.1 Domestic opportunities and obstacles for NGO activities
7.1.2 Labor-support organizations in the Chinese system of industrial relations
7.1.3 Enabling and constraining effects of transnational flow of resources
7.2 A plurality of new worker-support organizations
7.3 Case studies
7.3.1 Civil society building as legal support: the China Labour Bulletin
7.3.2 Movement-oriented organizations in mainland China: Xiao Xiao Niao
7.3.3 Business-oriented organizations: the Institute of Contemporary Observation
7.3.4 Balancing business and movement orientation: the Chinese Working Women Network
7.3.5 The intersection of domestic and transnational opportunities and the implications for the Chinese labor movement
7.3 Summary and Conclusion: contained multipartism and the Chinese labor movement
8. Conclusion
8.1 Summary of the findings: transnational activism and institutional change
8.1.1 Intra-pathway dynamics
8.1.2 Inter-pathway interactions
8.1.3 Interplay between the global and the local
8.2 Theoretical contributions
8.2.1 Integrating theories on transnational institutions and activism: Transnational institutions as complex opportunity spaces
8.2.2 Selective convergence: activism as part of processes of coevolution and interaction
8.3 Transnational activism, democratization, and China – some final thoughts
9. Appendix
Appendix 1: General tables and figures
Appendix 2: Data Sources (documents) international-organizational pathway (ILO)
Appendix 3: Data Sources (documents) bilateral pathway (EU)
Appendix 4: Data sources (documents) market pathway
Appendix 5: Overview of interviews
Appendix 6: Overview of participant observations
10. Bibliography
Rev. Type:
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Identifiers:
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Degree:
PhD
