STATE MANAGEMENT OF CAREERS, WORKPLACE CONFLICT, AND REGIME LEGITIMACY IN SOCIALIST CHINA |
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Authors: | Eddy U |
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Institution: | University of Sydney |
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Abstract: | Recent research indicates that career mobility under Chinese Communist rule has been shaped by state political screening and shifts in official ideology. Drawing on Weber's concept of modern bureaucracy and a study of schoolteachers in the Mao era (1949–1976), this article suggests that within the workplace official control of careers engendered an inferior and heterogeneous corps of management personnel, a deep schism between management and the staff, and a fractured division of labor. The antitheses of the rational features of modern bureaucracy, these arrangements fostered workplace friction and political resentment that precipitated post-Mao reforms. Primary evidence comes from recently declassified government documents and firsthand interviews with retired teachers. |
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