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Based on a case study carried out in the southern city of Guangzhou in China, this book describes the dramatic changes occurring at a large state owned enterprise as this socialist country undergoes market transition. It shows how these changes have led to the dismantling of the ""iron rice bowl"", the transformation of the socialist work unit and the life of its members, and the creation of a new model of occupational welfare.

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'As the Chinese welfare system undergoes an historic transformation, Professor Lee's fascinating book will be essential reading for social policy scholars everywhere. It has important lessons for the future of social policy.' - James Midgley, Specht Professor and Dean, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley 'The first full-length account of the development of enterprise-based welfare in China since 1980. Dr Lee skilfully integrates the profound national economic and social reforms with a case-study of the responses of a large machine works and the creative adaptation of workers and their families. An original interpretation of a critical shift in social provision in China.' - Professor Ian Gough, University of Bath

'As the Chinese welfare system undergoes an historic transformation, Professor Lee's fascinating book will be essential reading for social policy scholars everywhere. It has important lessons for the future of social policy.' - James Midgley, Specht Professor and Dean, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley 'The first full-length account of the development of enterprise-based welfare in China since 1980. Dr Lee skilfully integrates the profound national economic and social reforms with a case-study of the responses of a large machine works and the creative adaptation of workers and their families. An original interpretation of a critical shift in social provision in China.' - Professor Ian Gough, University of Bath

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MING-KWAN LEE is Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Applied Social Studies and Director of the Centre for Social Policy Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the author of Hong Kong Politics and Society in Transition (1987) and co-editor of several books including New Frontiers of Social Indicators Research in Chinese Societies (1996), Changing Chinese Societies: Social Indicators Analysis (1998), and Indicators of Social Development (1999).

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