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How to effectively deal with labor–capital relations under the conditions of the rapid economic development is a hot issue in China. Since 2002, the Yiwu General Trade Union of Zhejiang Province began exploring the societization of defending the rights of migrant workers, and since 2008 it has also begun to develop standards of corporate social responsibility. They are not only innovatively seeking methods to resolve labor–capital conflicts but also at the institutional level innovatively handling the relationships among reform, development, and stability on the ground. The further development of this reform will bring more changes in government and enterprise behavior and also improve China’s human rights environment.
Xinjun Gao is professor and senior researcher at China Center for Comparative Politics and Economics at the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. He is a political scientist specializing in comparative study of political and economic systems, and local governance. He has published a number of books on local governance in China and in the USA. Mail address: No. 36, Xi Xie Street, Xi Cheng District, Beijing, 100032, P. R. China. E-mail: xinjgao9@gmail.com; Phone: 011-86-10-6650-9406. The author is very grateful to Professor Richard Levy for his work in helping to translate this chapter.
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In Western societies, social integration usually means that people interact, connect, and validate each other within a community, especially the inclusion of immigrants/minorities into the mainstream of society. In this chapter, social integration refers to a means or a process to help achieve social stability and harmony in the Chinese society.
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Societization in this chapter refers to a combination of efforts by various social, economic, political, and legal entities.
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Ge Haiyou (editor in chief), One Hundred Questions about Beginning a Workers’ Movement, July 2009.
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Gao, X. (2014). From Societization of Workers’ Rights Defending to the Construction of Corporate Social Responsibility: The Experience of Yiwu City’s General Trade Union. In: Hao, Z., Chen, S. (eds) Social Issues in China. International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2224-2_12
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