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Globalized Factory System and the Issue of « Ethical Reconstruction »

Code of Conduct in Multinational Companies & Labour Relations in China

Authors: Pan Yi

Date: 2005

Published by Open Times

Looking back from the mid 1990s, there has appeared in China’s enterprises a tendency of implementing the Code of Conduct of multinational companies, which instigates our reflections on the labour relations in modern China. Why does multinational capital take the initiative to protect the rights of Chinese workers? What is the role played by the multinational capital in the regulation of labour relations? How does the Code of Conduct transform China’s factory system in the direction of globalization? What kind of impact will the establishment of globalized factory system have on China’s labour relations and labour rights? The author states that the implementation of the Code of Conduct of multinational companies can be understood as a process of aggressive capital shaping labour relations – a process which may be conceptualized as “ethical reconstruction”.

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