A Chinese Model for Labour in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9953083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonella Ceccagno (0000-0001-7506-7048, University of Bologna, corresponding author), Devi Sacchetto (0000-0002-3087-680X, University of Padua) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 73-86 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/imig.12616 |
| OpenAlex | W2955710922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
Based on long‐term fieldwork in multiple locations, our article questions the approach that posits a Chinese model of work and employment relations as increasingly exporting its form of labour management and dominating worldwide. It does so by focusing on Europe and discussing two labour regimes considered as typically Chinese: the Chinese fashion workshops in the Italian fashion industry, and the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic. Our findings bring new insights to bear on issues for which research is still thin on the ground and challenge the hypothesis of a ‘Chinesisation’ of work and employment practices in Chinese small firms and MNCs operating in Europe. We move the focus away from the simple analysis of firm management prevailing in the literature and suggest that, in order to understand the firm’s behaviours, the role of the state, the unions, the migrant workers and the role of temporary work agencies should all be taken into consideration
Business · Czech · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Multinational corporation · Order (exchange · Political science · State (computer science · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen
City Making and Global Labor Regimes
The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Institutional theory and the cross-national transfer of employment policy
Outsiders' Business
Shaping labour migration to Italy
Globalisation, cost competitiveness and international trade
The Investment-Promotion Machines
Supply Chains and the Human Condition
The politics of global production
Immigration and the Czech Republic (with a Special Focus on the Foreign Labor Force)
Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Business Patterns
Ethnic Entrepreneurs
Channels of Entry and Preferred Destinations
Forms of capital, intra-ethnic variation and Polish entrepreneurs in Leicester
Disappearing workers
The Postwar Mobility Transition in Eastern Europe
The mobility of workers living at work in Europe
Embeddedness and Immigration
Locating migrant pathways of economic emplacement
What is ethnic in an ethnic economy
Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers
Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship
Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
Limits of Ethnic Solidarity in the Enclave Economy
The Mobile Emplacement
Mixed Embeddedness
Mobility strategies, 'mobility differentials' and 'transnational exit
Re-embedding the ethnic business agenda
Methodological nationalism and beyond
De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |