his section concentrates on the contributive dimension of costs. It explores whether and how female factory workers have been paid as the contributive costs to economic growth in China. First, it focuses on the relationship between China’s economic growth and its exporting industry. Findings supported that the growth were mainly exports-led. Then it goes on to explore how female factory workers were formed to be cheap, smart and obedient labour to raise the competitiveness of China’s export capacity in the global market, contributing to the fast economic growth. These two parts interactively present a fact that female factory workers, instead of male workers or women in other sectors, are an dispensable force for driving China’s economic growth. They have borne the contributive costs for China’s economic growth. 3.1 Economic Growth and Export Industry in China The significant economic growth of China happened after China adopted Economic Reform and Opening-up Policy in 1978 (see Appendix 1). Under this policy, China opened its door to the foreign investment and began to emerge in the global market. Its economic system has since then been transformed from socialist economy into a capitalist economy (Szamosszegi and Kyle, 2011, p.4; Paltiel. 2009). If the period between the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the Reform in 1978 can be regarded as the first industrialisation process towards heavy industry monitored by central planning, then the
Since the market orientated economic reforms were introduced in 1978 (Khan, Hu (1997, P103) China’s economy has seen a 10% increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Per year (Vincellete, Manoel,
Nowadays, China has become the second largest economy in the world. The GDP (gross domestic product) of china was growing at 9.7% per year in average since 1978, which the year of Chinese “open door” politic founded. China also has become the biggest producer and consumer in many key agricultural and industrial markets and the largest FDI recipient among the developing countries. The performance of china in developing of economy is called “china’s economic miracle”, which be studied by many economists. However, there are also bad results with the development of economy in china such as environment disruption, corruption and
One of the hallmarks of china’s socialist economy made a statement promise of employment to all and job-security with virtually lifelong tenure.They were overstaffed to fulfilling socialist goals and job-security lower the workers ‘motivation to work.This socialist policy was called the iron rice bowl.China’s employed labor force is rarely over 800
Women who were working in factories were severely impacted socially and economically during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Young women were found to dominate the silk and textile factories, however, they did not receive the same pay as men. The chart referencing gender and age of silk factory workers in five English Towns in 1833 reveals that 63 to 96% of the workers were female, which of those were 35 to 53% under the age of 16. (Document A). The chart referencing gender and age of silk factories in Nagano, Japan in 1901 show that 12,519 females worked in 205 mills, which was 92% of the population. The ages of the female workers reveal that 18% were 14 and under, 48% were 15 to 20 years old, and 34% were over the age of 20 (Document B). The
In October 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established and led by Mao Zedong. China’s new communist leaders turned their backs on China’s traditional output (based on individual and small scale household production) economy and set out to create a massive socialist industrial government inspired by the Soviet Union. This idea introduced a model, which prioritize industrialization known as the “Big Push Model”. China started prioritizing investments into the heavy industry, which would reshape the Chinese economy and create a Command economy. Mao’s economic policies seemed be working in the
Since the implementation of the "reform and opening-up" policy in 1978, China's economy has been undergoing a rapid and healthy development. Over the past 27 years, China's annual GDP growth has averaged 9.4 per cent, more than doubled that of the world as well as more than two folds that of the developed nations over the same period. In 2004, China's GDP reached USD1650billion, an increase of 9.5 per cent over 2003.(The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Australia, June 2005)
China economy experienced an incredible growth in the last few decades that made the country the 2nd largest economy in the world. When China started the program of economic reforms in 1978, it ranked 9th in nominal GDP but 35 years later it’s now ranked 2nd in the nominal GDP and been the world’s manufacturing hub. In recent years, China’s modernization propelled the tertiary sector and in 2013, it became the largest category of GDP with a share of 46.1%, while the secondary sector still accounted for a sizeable, 45% of the country’s total output. Meanwhile, the primary sector's weight in GDP has shrunk dramatically since the country opened up to the world.
The rise in China from a poor, stagnant country to a major economic power within a time span of twenty-eight years is often described by analysts as one of the greatest success stories in these present times. With China receiving an increase in the amount of trade business from many countries around the world, they may soon be a major competitor to surpass the U.S. China became the second largest economy, last year, overtaking Japan which had held that position since 1968 (Gallup). China could become the world’s largest economy in decades.
The economic reforms implemented by the government over the past two decades have allowed China to evolve from a centrally planned economy,
There is great debate if the decline in economic growth was before or after the Industrial revolution but many seem to agree that the political system and the many conflicts that occurred in China play a major role. These factors made it difficult for the Chinese economy from getting the force it needed to catch up to the growth of Western Europe. Up until the 1950s, there was both high birth and death rates. Although the population growth was low and stable during this time, the economic growth in this country was at a minimal. The pre 1950s period would be considered stage one on the demographic transition model for China. It was not until the 1950s, when the People’s Republic of China was established, that the process of growth began. The decisions made during this
The purpose of this essay is to show how the economy of China has, and is changing, becoming the second largest economy in the world today. Although China is currently under the leadership of Xi Jinping, this essay will concentrate primarily on the actions undertaken by then President Mao Zedong, followed by then President Deng Xiaoping, (sans mention of Hua Guofeng). Given the relative infancy of Xi’s assumption of power, economic policies still remain largely rhetorical in form. Likewise, the majority of literature concerning economic policies under Xi are largely speculative, often citing strategies and ambitions as opposed to thereby, lacking a solid basis for rational induction In addition to China’s lack of transparency, In addition, it will be shown that the methodology behind the Chinese economy demonstrates the implementation of varying levels of the characteristics associated with the schools of Realism, Marxism and Liberalism. Thus, China’s approach to global trade in the 21st Century is pluralistic, testamentary to the failed economic
The unparalleled growth of economies in China over the past thirty decades have sparked a lot of interests from economists, with many arguments and explanations attempting to account for the actual dynamics that influenced such growths. Since the 1970s, the Chinese’s economy has a tendency is constantly increasing. The export-led growth gradually exceeded the import, with an annual growth of 17.2 percent in exports and 16.4 percent in import in 2010 (lse.ac.uk). In fact, implement of the policy of reform and opening, export-led growth is one of the main reasons for Chinese economic prosperity. One of typical examples is Shenzhen, located in southeastern China. Trading export leads Shenzhen’s GDP to rising, which has become the main momentum of economic growth. This success must contribute to its strategic location and geographic location.
rstly review the literature on women andindustrialisation world-widely. However, as the routes to and features of industrialisation are very different in the developed countries and the developing ones (see Butschek, 2006; Stoneburner and Angelos, 2005; Myrdal, 1970), the following review will have a greater focus on the developing countries, which have more comparative value to China. It offers both a theoretical framework and a bigger context for china’s case to stand against.
The examination of female factory workers and economic growth involves crossing dimensions of economy, labour and women. It is necessary to firstly have a critical review of the previous literature embracing these different dimensions. This will be divided into three parts. First, the relationship between labour and economic growth will be presented. Second, the concept of “shadow price of labour” will be introduced and reviewed for furthering the connotation of labour. Third, women in industrialisation will be reviewed for offering a global context of women and paid work.