China Perspective Issues
Shi Lu
Domestic and International Challenges for the Textile Industry in Shaoxing (Zhejiang)
ABSTRACT: This article recounts the transformations that have taken place in the textile industry in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, over the course of the past 30 years. It reveals the importance of the local setup and the links that have built up between companies, markets, and the state and its departments. It also exposes the difficulties experienced by companies as they try to adapt to their changing environment, whether in terms of opportunities offered by the domestic or international markets, or new regulations. KEYWORDS: textile industry, clusters, developmental state, governance, market.
From Farm Tools to Electric Cars. A Study of the Development of a Chinese Industrial Cluster: The Case of Yongkang in Zhejiang (1980-2010)
ABSTRACT: It is now recognised that China’s industrial clusters have played a particularly significant part in the prodigious economic transformations the country has experienced since the launch of reforms at the end of the 1970s. By studying the case of Yongkang, a county-level city in Zhejiang Province specialising in the manufacture of metal products, this article aims to increase understanding of how this rural area with a tradition of small-scale metal production has become, over the course of a few decades, an industrial cluster built around specific operations, and which economic, social, and political approaches have made these transformations possible. KEYWORDS: Zhejiang, Yongkang, company, industrial cluster, economy, governance, market.
Les travailleurs migrants à ShanghaiInégalités, niches économiques et diversité des parcours d'accès à l'emploi
Alors que l’économie chinoise se globalise, les migrations internes se sont fortement intensifiées et complexifiées. A Shanghai, le migrant peu qualifié est l'objet d'une ségrégation urbaine, sociale et économique qui le stigmatise dans l’espace public et contribue à l’inscrire dans des niches économiques sur des marchés du travail segmentés. Cependant en parcourant les espaces migratoires, il mobilise des compétences et des ressources. Les stratégies de survie économique des migrants sont productrices de situations d’affiliation ou de désaffiliation sociale dans un contexte d’insécurité.
Les travailleurs migrants à Shanghai. Inégalités, niches économiques et diversité des parcours d'accès à l'emploi
Migrant Workers in Shanghai Inequality, economic enclaves, and the various routes to employment
As China’s economy turns to globalisation, at home the issue of a floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. In Shanghai, low-skilled migrants are subject to economic and social segregation. This comes with a social stigma and restricts the migrants to particular economic sectors within a fragmented labour market. Nonetheless, the itineraries the migrants follow allow them to acquire certain skills and resources. Their survival strategies produce what have been called “situations of affiliation and disaffiliation�? within an overall situation of general insecurity.