Re: Factory Closings in China Arouse Workers' Fury

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:08 PM 8/30/00 -1000, you wrote:
> What is fascinating to me about the case of China is both the extent of
> conflicts betweeen workers and managers/ministries over the terms of SOE
> reorganization and the almost complete lack of any active reaction on the
> part of the left faction of the CCP.  There is missing any strategy
> whatsoever to show support for workers in these conflicts. What makes this
> so remarkable is how much space exists in China for making this possible
> through legal means. Intellectuals/cadres in China possess enough
> knowledge of labor and enterprise conversion laws that make it feasible
> for them to set up the equivalent of legal aid organizations, institutes
> studying systematically the different problems workers face in specific
> segments of SOE industries, strategies for defending SOE workers' legal
> rights (as they exist on the books) and the like.

is it possible that even the members of the "left faction" of the CCP have
some sort of vested interest that goes against putting pro-worker rhetoric
into action?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine