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China’s Evolving Role in Global Value Chains: Upgrading Strategies in an Era of Disruptions and Resilience Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

2022 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Subjective Social Upgrading and Downgrading of Technical Workers in China’s High-Tech Economy: A Company Case Study

verfasst von : Xia Yan

Erschienen in: China’s New Development Strategies

Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

Based on a case study of a Chinese ICT company’s firm upgrading and its impact on technical engineers, I find that social upgrading could coexist with social downgrading for the same group of workers. There are also disparities between workers’ self-evaluation and measures based on objective indicators. The concepts of “subjective social upgrading” and “objective social upgrading” are thus proposed to address these disparities. Subjective social upgrading, defined as workers’ subjective judgment of the changes in their situation, is closely related to the local social institutions in which workers’ references for the assessment are formed. I argue this could be a mediating variable that re-embeds workers into the local context and enables integrating the global dimension with the local in analyzing social upgrading. Subjective social upgrading is also an indicator of workers’ resistance, which implies the upgrading strategy’s sustainability.

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Metadaten
Titel
Subjective Social Upgrading and Downgrading of Technical Workers in China’s High-Tech Economy: A Company Case Study
verfasst von
Xia Yan
Copyright-Jahr
2022
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
Buch
China’s New Development Strategies

Print ISBN: 978-981-19-3007-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-3008-9

Copyright-Jahr: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3008-9_4

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