Chris Nyland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 256847 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chris Nyland |
| NOMBRES | Chris |
| APELLIDO | Nyland |
| FIRMA | NYLAND C |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9961-3282 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 52 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 163 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Writing Red Taylorism into management history
An increasing number of Western scholars are currently arguing that socialist transition theory may provide solutions to industrial relations and management problems that capitalism struggles to resolve. I add to this effort by introducing the debate on whether scientific management could assist the transition from capitalism to socialism that was undertaken in the United States through the first two decades of the 20th century. By so doing, I ma…
Forging a successful preschool policy coalition
In 2010, Chinaʼs government promulgated policies that, within a decade, saw early childhood education universalised across China. In this mixed‐method study, we examine how a preschool advocacy coalition convinced the government to embrace these policies at a time when China was classified as a low and middle‐income country by the World Bank. We posit that, in large part, this was because advocates combined both moral and economic development arg…
China's Staff and Worker Representative Congress System and the Management of Teachers' Performance Pay
Xi Jinping's government has curtailed some of the ways that China's workers formerly influenced the management of their workplaces while promoting other forms of rank-and-file participation in enterprise governance. Numerous studies have documented the forms of worker activism that have been curbed but few have discussed the state's efforts to bolster alternative forms of participatory management. This article addresses this imbalance with eviden…
Chinese employer associations, institutional complementarity and countervailing power
Prior to 2011 the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) was the only employer association recognized by China's government. Drawing on interviews with staff from employer associations, employers and state officials, this study clarifies the role of Chinese employer associations, with the focus being on the CEC. The study finds that the Confederation is a quasi-state agency that undertakes many of the activities conducted by employer associations i…
Moral shocks and small wins
In this article, we contend that employers’ willingness to provide former prisoners with integrative forms of employment is related to the extent to which liberal societies abstract, idealise and prioritise the interests of the self over the interests of society. Using the United States of America as a critical case to illustrate this argument, we unite the neoinstitutional sociology of organisations with Weick’s small wins approach to problem so…
The Institution ofHukou-based Social Exclusion
This conceptual article contributes to institutional analysis and the neo-institutional theory literature by identifying and analysing the linked rules, values, norms and patterned practices that surround and structure the way rural migrant workers are treated in urban areas ofChina in terms of Scott's integrated model of institutions. It argues that thesehukou-based rules, values, norms and patterned practices that discriminate against rural mig…
Chinese Transnational Investment in Australia
Against the backdrop of a nation where more than a third of the population is concerned about cultural differences threatening societal harmony, we explore community responses to a proposed development by a Chinese transnational company. An alumina refinery was to be built in Utopia, a small coastal town in North Queensland, Australia. Framed within the dimensions of Elias and Scotson's notion of established and outsider relations, we reveal the …
Shaming and Employer Social Insurance Compliance Behaviour in Shanghai
Social security regimes must be underpinned by enforcement mechanisms designed to compel employers to fulfil their contribution requirements. In this paper we extend debate on China's social security system by discussing whether the inclusion of re-integrative shaming in the repertoire of mechanisms the state utilises to enforce employer compliance is likely to prove effective. Drawing on audited data provided by the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and…
Employer attitudes towards social insurance compliance in Shanghai, China
Managing employer social insurance compliance is a particularly difficult governance challenge in emerging economies that have weak regulatory regimes. Utilizing qualitative evidence from eight case studies conducted in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, this article details how employers respond to attempts by the State to manage social insurance behaviour. Five concerns arose from employers' perceptions and responses to the established p…
Sinophobia as Corporate Tactic and the Response of Host Communities
China's State Council has charged that in 2009 BHP Billiton inflamed Australians' fear of "Chinese colour" in order to undermine Chinalco's (Aluminium Corporation of China) effort to increase its share of the Rio Tinto company. Though unproven, this is a serious charge and the more so because it suggests there is a risk that in the future firms challenged by Chinese competitors may emulate the alleged practice. Given this possibility, anti-racist…
International Student Security
More than three million students globally are on the move each year, crossing borders for their tertiary education. Many travel from Asia and Africa to English speaking countries, led by the United States, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand where students pay tuition fees at commercial rates and prop up an education export sector that has become lucrative for the provider nations. But the 'no frills' commercial form of tertiary education…
International student security
Security is an integral component of the relationships that shape the lives of students hosted by foreign countries. International student security became a source of contention between nations in 2008 when China's Government charged that Australia was failing to adequately provide for the safety of Chinese students. We discuss Beck's theorisation of the ‘risk society’ and Clements' notion of balancing risk with opportunity. We draw on interviews…
Grandparents as educators and carers in China
Many grandparents play a significant role as educators and carers of children in the preschool years. Recently, this role has become the focus of much early childhood research as challenges facing grandparent carers and grandparent-headed households increasingly become an economic and social issue. Using survey data from China we explore the role of grandparents who have a primary care responsibility for a young child and discuss this contributio…
The Social and Economic Security of International Students
Australian University International Student Finances
The “X component” in Shanghai's social security reforms
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Using data from 103,000 individuals enrolled in 25 plus X, we examine the extent to which the scheme r…
Loneliness and International Students
In a study of international student security, consisting of 200 intensive interviews with students, resident onshore in Australia, it was found that two thirds of the group had experienced problems of loneliness and/or isolation, especially in the early months. According to Weiss, students experience both personal loneliness because of the loss of contact with families and social loneliness because of the loss of networks. Both forms of lonelines…
The compliance challenge
Discussion of social security compliance in developing societies has mainly focused on systemic administrative and operational issues. The article argues that analysis of compliance calls also for frameworks which draw lessons from nation‐specific policy circumstances and comparisons of social protection regime types. Using such an approach, it also examines social security compliance in the context of China. Four considerations are found to be c…
The scientific management of the consumer interest
Beginning in the late 1980s, the widely held assumption that scientific management (Taylorism) was an authoritarian and mechanical body of thought and practice began to be subjected to sustained challenge. Underpinning this contest was a growing understanding that, in his last years, Frederick Winslow Taylor became acutely aware that the ability of business interests to dominate enterprise governance was a major barrier to the development of form…
The management of social protection in Sri Lanka
Examining how, why and when employers will support the extension and deepening of social welfare, Mares recently argued employers wish both to diffuse social risk and maximise control of employee benefits and insisted that these alternatives require trade-offs. Mares also argued the nature of these trade-offs will be influenced by firm-specific characteristics and incidence of labour market risk. This article tests her model with enterprise data …
Migrants as Homo Economicus
The problem of a shortage of migrant labor is a new development in China's coastal provinces. We discuss the reasons for this emerging phenomenon using a conceptual framework that extends the traditional Lewis dualistic labor market model to incorporate a migrant labor market. We emphasize that migrant labor shortage in China not only reflects a declining wage gap between what peasants receive and what migrants can earn in the cities, but also th…
An Evaluation of Australia's Proposal for Improved Market Access for Products from Least Developed Countries
Australia's policy to provide duty free and quota free access to all goods from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) came into effect on 1 July 2003. The policy decision is partly based on an Australian Government report (Productivity Commission, 2002 Productivity Commission. 2002. Removing tariffs on goods originating from least developed countries Research Report, Melbourne [Google Scholar]). It contends that not only will the removal of tariffs on…
What Determines the Extent to which Employers will Comply with their Social Security Obligations? Evidence from Chinese Firm‐level Data
This article aims to extend understanding of employer responses to social protection regulations enacted by government to ensure the well‐being and security of employees. By utilizing firm‐specific data collected from Shanghai we explore the relationship between firm characteristics, employer behaviour, and the effectiveness of compliance mechanisms that have been adopted to contain contribution evasion by employers. We offer empirical evidence a…
Globalisation and Social Protection Reforms in Sri Lanka
Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Urban Residents to Migrant Workers
One consequence of China's marketisation has been the emergence of a 'floating population'-rural Chinese who migrate to China's cities to work. Many urbanites have negative attitudes towards such migrants. To understand how these negative attitudes might be ameliorated, the paper employs Allport's influential contact hypothesis to investigate whether urbanite-migrant friendships affect attitudes. More negative attitudes were observed among males …
Which Rural Migrants Receive Social Insurance in Chinese Cities
This article draws on a survey of internal migrant workers in China’s Jiangsu province to shed light on the characteristics of migrant workers who receive social insurance and explain why some migrants take up social insurance while others do not. Of the factors which potentially explain which migrants receive social insurance, gender, past earnings, ties to the city to which the migrant had moved, the ownership type of the enterprise in which th…
Effects of Intergroup Contact on Attitudes of Chinese Urban Residents to Migrant Workers
One consequence of China's marketisation has been the emergence of a 'floating population'-rural Chinese who migrate to China's cities to work. Many urbanites have negative attitudes towards such migrants. To understand how these negative attitudes might be ameliorated, the paper employs Allport's influential contact hypothesis to investigate whether urbanite-migrant friendships affect attitudes. More negative attitudes were observed among males …
Global Migration and Social Protection Rights
A growing number of students cross national borders for their studies. An expanding global market in higher education has been created. Yet significant gaps exist in the governance of international students' rights. As well as being educational service beneficiaries, cross-border students are migrants, workers, consumers and human beings. A broader view of students, as individuals deserving of ‘social and economic security’, is superior to that w…
Capitalism and the History of Worktime Thought
What Determines the Extent to which Employers will Comply with their Social Security Obligations? Evidence from Chinese Firm‐level Data
This article aims to extend understanding of employer responses to social protection regulations enacted by government to ensure the well‐being and security of employees. By utilizing firm‐specific data collected from Shanghai we explore the relationship between firm characteristics, employer behaviour, and the effectiveness of compliance mechanisms that have been adopted to contain contribution evasion by employers. We offer empirical evidence a…
The Institution ofHukou-based Social Exclusion
This conceptual article contributes to institutional analysis and the neo-institutional theory literature by identifying and analysing the linked rules, values, norms and patterned practices that surround and structure the way rural migrant workers are treated in urban areas ofChina in terms of Scott's integrated model of institutions. It argues that thesehukou-based rules, values, norms and patterned practices that discriminate against rural mig…
Sinophobia as Corporate Tactic and the Response of Host Communities
China's State Council has charged that in 2009 BHP Billiton inflamed Australians' fear of "Chinese colour" in order to undermine Chinalco's (Aluminium Corporation of China) effort to increase its share of the Rio Tinto company. Though unproven, this is a serious charge and the more so because it suggests there is a risk that in the future firms challenged by Chinese competitors may emulate the alleged practice. Given this possibility, anti-racist…
Australian University International Student Finances
Chinese employer associations, institutional complementarity and countervailing power
Prior to 2011 the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC) was the only employer association recognized by China's government. Drawing on interviews with staff from employer associations, employers and state officials, this study clarifies the role of Chinese employer associations, with the focus being on the CEC. The study finds that the Confederation is a quasi-state agency that undertakes many of the activities conducted by employer associations i…
Employer attitudes towards social insurance compliance in Shanghai, China
Managing employer social insurance compliance is a particularly difficult governance challenge in emerging economies that have weak regulatory regimes. Utilizing qualitative evidence from eight case studies conducted in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, this article details how employers respond to attempts by the State to manage social insurance behaviour. Five concerns arose from employers' perceptions and responses to the established p…
The Labour Movement of Vietnam
Adam Smith, Stage Theory, and the Status of Women
In the late eighteenth century an important theoretical device became highly influential in Europe. This tool has become known as the 'four stages theory'. It is the contention of this paper that by utilising this theory Adam Smith was able to advance significantly the development of the economic analysis of the status of women. The paper argues that Smith's contribution to the 'women's question' was fundamental. It constituted the economic disci…
Grandparents as educators and carers in China
Many grandparents play a significant role as educators and carers of children in the preschool years. Recently, this role has become the focus of much early childhood research as challenges facing grandparent carers and grandparent-headed households increasingly become an economic and social issue. Using survey data from China we explore the role of grandparents who have a primary care responsibility for a young child and discuss this contributio…
Trade unions, the Australian Labor Party and the Trade–Labour Rights Debate
This paper examines the Australian trade union movement's campaign to convince the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to support the inclusion of core labour standards in international trade agreements. Despite historical affiliations, the Australian union movement has been unsuccessful in its attempts to influence the ALP. In contrast, the US union movement has convinced both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party to accept that core labour sta…
The Determination of Location in New South Wales
HODGKINSON A., NYLAND C. and POMFRET S. (2001) The determination of location in New South Wales, Reg. Studies 35,39–55. There are currently a number of competing explanations of the role which regions play in national economic development processes, all of which appear to have elements of validity. A set of ideal types is developed from this literature as a framework in which to analyse diVerent patterns of regional location behaviour and to high…
The management of social protection in Sri Lanka
Examining how, why and when employers will support the extension and deepening of social welfare, Mares recently argued employers wish both to diffuse social risk and maximise control of employee benefits and insisted that these alternatives require trade-offs. Mares also argued the nature of these trade-offs will be influenced by firm-specific characteristics and incidence of labour market risk. This article tests her model with enterprise data …
Globalisation and Social Protection Reforms in Sri Lanka
The wto and patenting of life forms
This paper argues that whether developing countries will be able to protect their plant genetic resources and the right of local communities to control and enjoy the benefits of their traditional knowledge will be determined both by policies adopted by the World Trade Organization ( wto ) and by the domestic policies these nations implement within their respective countries. Drawing on empirical data from a survey of various stakeholders on the i…
John Locke and the Social Position of Women
Research Article| March 01 1993 John Locke and the Social Position of Women Chris Nyland Chris Nyland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (1): 39–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-1-39 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Nyland; John Locke and the Social Position of Women. History of Political Economy 1 March 199…
Vietnam, the plan/market contradiction and the transition to socialism
Moral shocks and small wins
In this article, we contend that employers’ willingness to provide former prisoners with integrative forms of employment is related to the extent to which liberal societies abstract, idealise and prioritise the interests of the self over the interests of society. Using the United States of America as a critical case to illustrate this argument, we unite the neoinstitutional sociology of organisations with Weick’s small wins approach to problem so…
The Social and Economic Security of International Students
The “X component” in Shanghai's social security reforms
In 2003, the Shanghai Bureau of Labour and Social Security launched the zhenbao (town insurance) programme, now widely known as 25 plus X. This scheme is regarded as an important experiment in social security reform and has been lauded for extending social security to areas where previously only segments of the population had mandatory coverage. Using data from 103,000 individuals enrolled in 25 plus X, we examine the extent to which the scheme r…
Marketization and perceptions of social protection in China’s cities
Retrospectives Gender in Classical Economics
This feature addresses the history of economic words and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Room 2103, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121
Vietnam, the plan/market contradiction and the transition to socialism
Vietnam Since the Fall of Saigon
Capitalism and the History of Worktime Thought
Worktime in the 1920s
Scientific management and planning
Drawing upon a wide range of historical sources, Chris Nyland argues that the Taylorist system of work organisation has been too hastily dismissed by Marxist and other commentators from the left. The author thus suggests that socialists should re-evaluate the potentialities of scientific management, and hat the techniques of planning and systematic work scheduling for the benefit of the working class
Scientific Management and the 44-Hour Week
In the four years 1918-1922 standard working times within virtually all the major industrialised nations fell by approximately 20% either as a result of collective bargaining or as a consequence of state intervention in the labour market.1 This global phenomenon was a consequence of two primary factors. First, the radicalisation of the working class that had been engendered by the First World War. Second, a widespread awareness that the war had r…
Weak Bodies, Strong Wills
Weak Bodies, Strong Wills: The Empirical Evidence for Marx’s Theory of Worktime." Studies in Political Economy, 25(1), pp. 75–105
Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production
This book examines the tendency in market economies to reduce the time workers spend at their place of employment and considers the role scientific management has played in this development. The author contends that the changing nature of worktime can be explained by changes in both the capitalistic production process and the demands that this process places on the psycho-physiological capacities of human beings. Between 1870 and 1980, the total …
Capitalism and the History of Work-time Thought
Between 1870 and 1980 total annual working-time in the major nations of the industrialised capitalist world fell by approximately 40 per cent. Why standard work-times should change has been a matter of debate for as long as capitalism has existed. This ... [study] overviews the major contributions to the discussion. An examination of this nature is necessary because the contemporary work-time debate has become limited to the examination of worker…
Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production
Preface 1. The history of worktime thought 2. Empirical evidence and worktime theory 3. Worktime and the effort bargain 4. The rationalization of worktime 5. The internationalization of rationalized worktimes Conclusion References Index
Reduced Worktime and the Management of Production
John Locke and the Social Position of Women
Research Article| March 01 1993 John Locke and the Social Position of Women Chris Nyland Chris Nyland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1993) 25 (1): 39–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-25-1-39 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Nyland; John Locke and the Social Position of Women. History of Political Economy 1 March 199…
Adam Smith, Stage Theory, and the Status of Women
In the late eighteenth century an important theoretical device became highly influential in Europe. This tool has become known as the 'four stages theory'. It is the contention of this paper that by utilising this theory Adam Smith was able to advance significantly the development of the economic analysis of the status of women. The paper argues that Smith's contribution to the 'women's question' was fundamental. It constituted the economic disci…
Biology and Environment
Research Article| September 01 1997 Biology and Environment: Montesquieu's Relativist Analysis of Gender Behavior Chris Nyland Chris Nyland 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (3): 391–412. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-29-3-391 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Chris Nyland; Biology and Environment: Montesquieu's Rela…
The Economic Analysis of Employee Rights
Quarantined Culture
The mad kermesse 2. 1913: a year of golden plums 3. 1913: nowadays we are most of us Nietzscheans 4. 1914-19: the gilding of battlefield lilies 5. 1919-20: blowing the national trumpet 6. The return of the city bushmen 7. Aliens among us 8. Blues in the Jazz Age 9. Fissure in the imperial landscape 10. Crash and aftermath 11. Whatever happened to the 'lost generation'? Conclusion Appendix Notes Select bibliography Index
The Labour Movement of Vietnam
Malaysian Business in the New Era
Economic and social adjustment in Malaysia in the new business era, Chris Nyland et al Malaysian export competitiveness compared with the dynamic economies - past performance and prospects for the next millennium, Peter Wilson Australian business attitudes to Malaysia, Marika Vicziany et al transaction costs of cross cultural exchange - evidence from Australia-Malaysia case studies, Ergun Dogan et al Japanese electronics firms in Malaysia - after…
The Determination of Location in New South Wales
HODGKINSON A., NYLAND C. and POMFRET S. (2001) The determination of location in New South Wales, Reg. Studies 35,39–55. There are currently a number of competing explanations of the role which regions play in national economic development processes, all of which appear to have elements of validity. A set of ideal types is developed from this literature as a framework in which to analyse diVerent patterns of regional location behaviour and to high…
The wto and patenting of life forms
This paper argues that whether developing countries will be able to protect their plant genetic resources and the right of local communities to control and enjoy the benefits of their traditional knowledge will be determined both by policies adopted by the World Trade Organization ( wto ) and by the domestic policies these nations implement within their respective countries. Drawing on empirical data from a survey of various stakeholders on the i…
Trade unions, the Australian Labor Party and the Trade–Labour Rights Debate
This paper examines the Australian trade union movement's campaign to convince the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to support the inclusion of core labour standards in international trade agreements. Despite historical affiliations, the Australian union movement has been unsuccessful in its attempts to influence the ALP. In contrast, the US union movement has convinced both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party to accept that core labour sta…
Retrospectives Gender in Classical Economics
This feature addresses the history of economic words and ideas. The hope is to deepen the workaday dialogue of economists, while perhaps also casting new light on ongoing questions. If you have suggestions for future topics or authors, please write to Joseph Persky, c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Department of Economics (M/C 144), University of Illinois at Chicago, 601 South Morgan Street, Room 2103, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121
Marketization, globalization, and social protection reform in China
The form of social protection embraced by a country can have a significant impact on the management strategies of firms and on the attractiveness of a nation as an investment site. Focusing on the situation in Shanghai, this article examines social protection reforms being introduced in China and identifies some possible implications for the global social protection debate and for investors operating in China. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Global Migration and Social Protection Rights
A growing number of students cross national borders for their studies. An expanding global market in higher education has been created. Yet significant gaps exist in the governance of international students' rights. As well as being educational service beneficiaries, cross-border students are migrants, workers, consumers and human beings. A broader view of students, as individuals deserving of ‘social and economic security’, is superior to that w…
The Distance Travelled
In this article we examine an education project designed to improve the well-being of babies in China's welfare homes. The project is a product of the Chinese Government's decision to marketize its social policy, adopt a mixed funding model and globalize its adoption regime. It involves the movement of education ideas developed in Reggio Emilia in Italy to promote the rights of children across global boundaries and a Chinese–American partnership …
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