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Abstract  

In 2014, Narendra Modi, a Prime Minister with strong desire for development initiated “Make in India” and hoped to build India another manufacture giant. Ample researches have suggested labor system is one of key points why China and India have chosen different development model. Flexibility in labor market and blocking of independent trade union make China labor system more pro-capital which is why China could successfully build itself the world factory. And because of that, China was traditionally viewed as an exception in terms of the relation between state and workers. To what extent the relation between state and workers in China and India share some commons and differences? Is it possible to compare China and India in terms of relations between state and workers? If there is labor reform in India in order to realize “ Make in India”, what could be observed  from Chinese labor reform experience and Chinese workers? The speaker will retrospect the labor reform in China and controversies on labor issues in India in economic reform era. How the state confronts the capitalism and how the workers in the manufacturing sectors make collective actions in both countries will be discussed.

About the Speaker

Dr. Chen Jinying is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University, P.R.China. She received her PhD in Political Science from Fudan University. She was an exchange scholar under the “China-Canada Exchange Scholar Program” at Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto (2013-2014). Her research interests are Sino-Indian Relations, Contemporary Chinese Politics, State-Society relations in China and India.She is currently researching on Indian labor issues.