中欧社会论坛 - China Europa Forum

Authors: 潘毅

Date: 2005年 第2期

Published by 《开放时代》

Starting from the mid 1990s， there has appeared in China’s enterprises a tendancy 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 role is multinational capital playing 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? This author maintains that the implementation of the Code of Conduct of multinational companies can be understood as a process of aggressive capital shaping of labour relations - a process which may be conceptualized as “ethical reconstruction”.

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• Globalized Factory System and the Issue of « Ethical Reconstruction »