This PhD dissertation examines the relation between actors and dynamics of labour strikes events in the People’s Republic of China’s Guangdong province from 2003 to 2021. The thesis reviews the literature on the general subject of industrial relations and labour strikes in advanced economies and then in the context of China since the early 20th century. Two chapters are dedicated to the analysis of a non-representative dataset build on newspapers articles as secondary sources from the decade 2003-2013. An appendix is dedicated to the software used to transform qualitative data into quantitative data in the form of semantic triplets. The first empirical chapter analyses the question of relations between industrial relations actors through social network analysis. The second empirical chapter analyses the dynamics of strikes and the causal pathways to success or failure through qualitative comparative analysis. A last empirical chapter is dedicated to a qualitative exploration of secondary sources – newspaper articles and social media posts – of the same questions in the years 2014-2021.
Questa tesi di dottorato esamina le relazioni tra gli attori e le dinamiche dei casi di sciopero nella provincia del Guangdong della Repubblica Popolare Cinese dal 2003 al 2021. La prima sezione della tesi revisione la letteratura sul soggetto generale delle relazioni industriali e degli scioperi nelle economie avanzate, successivamente revisiona le stesse questioni nel contesto cinese dall’inizio del 20esimo secolo. Due capitoli sono dedicati all’analisi di un dataset non rappresentativo costruito su articoli di giornale come fonti secondarie del decennio 2003-2013. Un’appendice è dedicata al software usato per trasformare dati qualitativi in dati quantitativi nella forma di triplette semantiche applicando l’analisi narrativa quantitativa. Sulla base di questo dataset, il primo capitolo empirico analizza le relazioni tra gli attori del sistema di relazioni industriali attraverso la social network analysis. Il secondo capitolo empirico analizza le dinamiche degli scioperi e dei passaggi causali verso il successo o il fallimento attraverso un’analisi qualitativa comparativa. Un ultimo capitolo empirico è dedicato all’esplorazione qualitativa di fonti secondarie – articoli di giornali e pubblicazioni su social media – delle questioni trattate nei due capitoli precedenti negli anni 2014-2021.
LABOUR STRIKES IN GUANGDONG: A STUDY ON THE ACTORS OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND ON PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF STRIKES
RIZZI, PAOLO
2023
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This PhD dissertation examines the relation between actors and dynamics of labour strikes events in the People’s Republic of China’s Guangdong province from 2003 to 2021. The thesis reviews the literature on the general subject of industrial relations and labour strikes in advanced economies and then in the context of China since the early 20th century. Two chapters are dedicated to the analysis of a non-representative dataset build on newspapers articles as secondary sources from the decade 2003-2013. An appendix is dedicated to the software used to transform qualitative data into quantitative data in the form of semantic triplets. The first empirical chapter analyses the question of relations between industrial relations actors through social network analysis. The second empirical chapter analyses the dynamics of strikes and the causal pathways to success or failure through qualitative comparative analysis. A last empirical chapter is dedicated to a qualitative exploration of secondary sources – newspaper articles and social media posts – of the same questions in the years 2014-2021.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14242/84312
URN:NBN:IT:UNIMI-84312