China Labour Bulletin has produced an extensive series of Chinese and English language research reports that provide an in-depth analysis of some of the key labour rights issues in China today, and offer a series of recommendations designed to resolve the most pressing problems.  Several of our older reports also have executive summaries in French, German and Italian.

 

English Language Reports

A series of reports tracking the development and characteristics of China's workers' movement since 2000, as well as specific incidents during in the reform of state-owned enterprises.

• China’s Walmart workers: Creating an opportunity for genuine trade unionism
• Over-worked and under-paid: The long-running battle of China’s teachers for decent work
• The Workers’ Movement in China: 2015-2017
• Searching for the Union:The Workers’ Movement in China 2011-13
• A Decade of Change: The Workers’ Movement in China 2000-2010
• Unity is Strength: The Workers' Movement in China 2009-2011
• Going it Alone: The Workers’ Movement in China (2007-2008)
• Speaking Out: The Workers’ Movement in China, 2005-2006
• Standing Up: The Workers’ Movement in China 2000-04 (executive summary)
• No Way Out: Worker Activism in China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reforms
• The Liaoyang Workers’ Struggle: Portrait of a Movement

• Throwaway Labour: The exploitation of Chinese "trainees" in Japan
• Hired on Sufferance: China’s migrant workers in Singapore
• The Mass Production of Labour: The exploitation of students in China’s vocational school system
• Paying the Price for Economic Development: The Children of Migrant Workers in China
• Small Hands: A Survey Report on Child Labour in China
• Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China

Health and Safety

A series of investigations into one of the most critical issues faced by workers in China today, high rates of work-related accidents and deaths, and the tremendous difficulties workers encounter in claiming compensation for occupational disease.

• Time to Pay the Bill: China’s obligation to the victims of pneumoconiosis
• The Hard Road: Seeking justice for victims of pneumoconiosis in China
• Help or Hindrance to Workers: China's Institutions of Public Redress
• Bone and Blood: The Price of Coal in China
• Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic among Guangdong Jewellery Workers

Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining

Research reports and commentaries that examine the atempts of the Chinese government and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) to manage labour relations in China.

• Understanding and resolving the fundamental problems in China’s construction industry
• Swimming against the Tide: A short history of labour conflict in China and the government’s attempts to control it
• Protecting Workers’ Rights or Serving the Party: The way forward for China’s trade unions
• Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process
• Conflicts of Interest and the Ineffectiveness of China’s Labour Laws (executive summary)

 

Chinese Language Reports

• 中华全国总工会改革观察报告  Trade Union Reform and Accountability
• 建筑行业工会归位: 我国建筑行业40年之“法外运行”及其出路  Resetting the Construction Workers' Union
• 中国工人运动观察报告:2015-2017  The Workers' Movement in China 2015-2017

• 对《广东省企业集体合同条例》的评估 — 兼论破解基层工会的“死穴”  An evaluation of the Guangdong Enterprise Collective Contracts Regulations and how to tackle the “Achilles’ heel” of grassroots trade unions

• 中国工人运动观察报告: 2013—2014  The Workers' Movement in China 2013-2014.

• 中国工人运动观察报告 2011 – 2012   The Workers' Movement in China 2011-2012

• 谁之责？—  对中国尘肺病群体的救助与赔偿研究   Who is to blame? An analysis of charity and compensation for China's pneumoconiosis victims.

• 工人集体行动十一年：基于553个个案的分析  Eleven years of workers' collective action: An analysis of 553 cases. 

• 中国工人运动观察报告（2009-2010）The Workers’ Movement in China (2009-2010)

• 召之即来，挥之即去——中国工人在新加坡的劳动权益状况报告 Hired on Sufferance: China’s Migrant Workers in Singapore

• 在异国难圆的梦：赴日研修实习生劳动权益状况报告(2011年1月) Unfulfilled dreams in a foreign land: A report on the rights and interest of Chinese "trainees" in Japan.

• 劳资矛盾何以成为社会的忧患：对劳动关系转型及调整机制的回顾与探讨(2010年5月) How Labour-Management Conflicts Have Become a Social Misery: A Look Back on Developments in Labour Relations and the System for Managing Them.

• 蜀道之难，难於上青天”— 析尘肺病患者索赔的三类障碍 (2009年12月)
  "Easier the climb to Heaven:" The three obstacles on the road to justice for victims of pneumoconiosis.

• 中国工人运动观察报告(2007-2008) The Workers Movement in China, 2007-2008

• 谁来维权 为谁维权 --- 论全总维权的政治化及中国工会运动的出路(2008年12月) Who is the protector, and who the protected:  A discussion of the politicisation of the ACFTUs’ rights protection activities, and ways out of the impasse for the union movement in China.

• 终结“法外运行”的雇佣关系 —— 论《劳动合同法》对工会角色的定位(2008年7月）Operating Outside the Law: The Labour Contract Law and the role the Trade Unions

• 从“状告无门”到“欲加之罪” --- 对工人集体行动演变过程的分析 (2008年 3 月)
  No Legal Recourse: Why collective labour protests lead to conflict with the law.

• 公力救济在劳工维权过程中的异化：对三起工伤（职业病）索赔案的分析 (2007年12月)Help or Hindrance: An analysis of public protection procedures in three occupational injury cases.

• 集体合同制度是调整劳资关系的必然选择 (2007年9月) Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process.

• 中国工人运动观察报告(2005-2006) Speaking Out: The Workers Movement in China, 2005-2006

• “以人为本”？：煤矿矿难遗属谈话的启示（2006年11月）Putting People First: A Critique of China’s Compensation System for Bereaved Coalminers’ Families

• 关于中国童工现象的实地考察报告 （2006年5月）Small Hands: Survey Report on Child Labour in China 

• 有效的工人组织：保障矿工生命的必由之路 —中国煤矿安全治理研究报告（2006年3月)  Bloody Coal: An Appraisal of China's Coalmine Safety Management System

• 致命的粉尘：中国广东地区珠宝加工业矽肺病个案分析报告 （2005年12月）Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic in the Guangdong Jewellery Processing Industry

• 中国工人运动观察报告(2000-2004)   Standing Up: The Workers Movement in China, 2000-2004 

• 挣扎在去留之间：中国广东省东莞女工状况的调查笔录整理报告（2005年6月）Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Workers’ Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China

• 官商较量与劳权缺位：中国职业安全卫生报告 （2005年4月）Occupational Health and Safety in China – Labour Rights Lose Out to Government and Business.

• 利益的冲突与法律的失败：中国劳工权益分析报告 （2004年11月）Conflicts of Interest and the Ineffectiveness of China’s Labour Laws