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Based on a case-study carried out in the southern city of Guangzhou in China, this book describes in compelling details the dramatic changes occurring at a large state-owned enterprise as this socialist country undergoes market transition. Its shows how these changes have led to the dismantling of the "iron rice bowl," the transformation of the socialist work unit and the life of its members, and the creation of a new model of occupational welfare.
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Health insurance, retirement pensions, housing, various subsidies in cash and kind, collective facilities such as nurseries and clinics, and sometimes schools and hospitals are among the vital services that Chinese state-sector employees have obtained through their work from the earliest days of the People's Republic. Lee (social policy, Hong Kong Polytechnic U.) analyzes the origins and nature of what he calls welfare, and recent changes in it, through a detailed case study of a large, industrial, state-owned enterprise in the southern city of Guangzhou Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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