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SUMMARY:Union's Role in Strike Resolution in China - Cheng Chang
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CONTACT:Xinyi Liu
DESCRIPTION:Trade unions in China are placed in a difficult position betwe
 en the state and the workers. The paper considers and contrasts the parts 
 played by unions in dispute resolution\, by means of two case studies. Alt
 hough the primary aims of both unions in the cases were defusing the strik
 es\, the strategies adopted by them can be distinguished. The paper tries 
 to interpret the distinctive strategies by looking at the interactions bet
 ween the workplace unions and unions at higher levels in the strike. The p
 aper argues that\, because of the weakness of the workplace-level unions\,
  resources from higher level trade unions become the major source of the w
 orkplace union's leverage in resolving the strike\, whose stance\, in turn
 \, becomes the main influence in union's strategy in intervening in the st
 rike. 
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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