Power Games and Wage Negotiations in China's New Energy Vehicle Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13055211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenjuan Jia (0000-0002-3563-3890, Shanghai University, corresponding author), Siyu You (Shanghai University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Inclusion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/si.7454 |
| OpenAlex | W4391316604 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
China has launched a comprehensive low‐carbon transition strategy at the same time as the concept of just transition is receiving extensive international attention from the academic community. A just transition needs to embrace the interests of workers in the new energy industry as well as those of miners and others facing job losses in traditional industries. Accordingly, this article focuses on how programmers at a new energy vehicle company in Shanghai negotiate wages with their employers. Employers trying to curtail the salaries of programmers find fault with their biographies, qualifications, and experiences to undermine their confidence and create an incentive‐driven competitive work environment. Programmers, in turn, try to improve their bargaining power by demonstrating their professional competence, job hopping, and informally investigating conditions at employing enterprises to take advantage of the competitive relationship between them. The interests of programmers in China’s new energy vehicle industry are found to differ from those of Chinese state‐owned enterprise workers and migrant workers. Although individual negotiations can improve the wage levels of specific programmers in the short run, they are not conducive to the emergence of labor solidarity. Moreover, they exacerbate income inequality among workers and fail to bring justice to workers in the new energy industry
China · Economic system · Economics · Energy (signal processing · Labour economics · Negotiation · Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Wage · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Mathematics
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Against the Law
Forces of Labor
Remaking the World of Chinese Labour
Climate policy co-benefits
Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions
A Theory of Justice
The political economy of the 'just transition
Upgrading China through Automation
Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |