A unique account of labor relations in the modern Chinese economy, Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl brings together more than thirty in-depth case studies of key multinational, Chinese, and overseas Chinese enterprises in the automotive, electronic, and garment industries. Analyzing the regimes of production and their segmentations in the context of global and national production networks, the authors discuss Chinese and international industrial relations theory and labor sociology and explore the perspectives of collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China. 

Boy Lüthje is a senior fellow at the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt Germany and visiting professor at the School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. Luo Siqi a research associate of the Institute of Social Research. Zhang Hao is a doctoral student at Cornell University. 

— Bill Taylor, City University of Hong Kong, China Journal