Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- EXPLAINING FACTORY INSTITUTIONS IN CHINA -- POLITICAL REGIMES AND WORKPLACE REGIMES IN CHINA -- THE EMPIRICAL APPROACH -- 2 Labor Management and Its Opponents, 1927-1937 -- THE MODERNIZATION OF LABOR MANAGEMENT -- Shipbuilding and Textiles -- Shanghai and Guangzhou -- Guilds and Apprentices -- Gangs and Contractors -- NATIONALIST LABOR POLICY AND ENTERPRISE CASES -- The Jiangnan Shipyard -- The Shenxin Corporation -- Provincial Government and Industrial Development in Guangzhou -- Envisioning an Industrial Future -- 3 Welfare and Wages in Wartime -- WARTIME LABOR POLICY -- ENTERPRISE WELFARE PROVISION IN POSTWAR CHINA -- Guangdong Textile Mill -- Huangpu Naval Shipyard -- Jiangnan Shipyard -- Private Enterprises in Shanghai -- Labor Politics in Shanghai's Cotton Mills -- 4 Takeover Policies and Labor Politics, 1949-1952 -- CITY AND FACTORY TAKEOVERS -- The Takeover of Shanghai -- The Takeover of Guangzhou -- THE FAILURE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION -- FACTORY CAMPAIGNS, 1951-1952 -- The Campaigns in Shanghai -- The Campaigns in Guangzhou -- Unintended Consequences of the Campaigns -- 5 Adjusting to the Command Economy -- ENTERPRISE WELFARE -- WAGES -- WAGE ADJUSTMENTS -- INCENTIVE BONUSES -- LABOR ALLOCATION -- PARTY-GOVERNMENT RIVALRY -- LABOR COMPETITIONS -- 6 Enterprise Perspectives on the Command Economy -- JIANGNAN SHIPYARD -- Wages -- Production Bonuses -- Enterprise Welfare -- Labor Allocation -- Campaigns -- SHENXIN NUMBER SIX MILL -- Campaigns -- Wages -- Labor Allocation -- Enterprise Welfare -- HUANGPU NAVAL SHIPYARD -- Wages -- Enterprise Welfare -- Campaigns -- GUANGDONG TEXTILE MILL -- Wages -- Labor Allocation -- Enterprise Welfare -- Campaigns and Labor Competitions.

COMMAND ECONOMICS, LOCAL CONTROLS -- 7 The Rise of "Party Committee Factories" -- STRIKE WAVES, RECTIFICATION, AND DECENTRALIZATION -- Rectification -- Decentralization -- Labor Allocation -- Enterprise Welfare -- Wages and Bonuses -- RE-(DE)CENTRALIZATION AFTER THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD -- Labor Allocation -- Enterprise Welfare -- Wages and Bonuses -- Intensifying Corruption -- The Cultural Revolution and Decentralization -- 8 Conclusion -- CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE -- CRISES AND FACTORY INSTITUTIONS -- BUILDING WORKPLACE INSTITUTIONS: TAIWAN IN THE 1950S -- EPILOGUE: OLD FACTORIES, NEW INSTITUTIONS -- Archives Consulted -- SHANGHAI -- GUANGZHOU -- TAIPEI -- Bibliography -- Index.