Analysis Commentary and Features

Analysis and CommentaryCLB provides detailed analysis and expert commentary on major labour rights issues in China. In this section, we aim to give readers a greater understanding of and insights into the stories behind the headlines, as well as highlight issues of concern for workers in China.

China's "labour famine:" Hype and reality
05 Mar 2010
Will the New Year see a resumption of collective bargaining in China?
05 Jan 2010
Nationalization is not a short cut to coal mine safety
10 Nov 2009
State Council’s revised work-related injury regulations need more bite
23 Aug 2009

Feature ArticlesHuman interest stories can provide a unique and penetrating insight into complex problems. In this section we publish features that focus more on the human scale, allowing readers to understand important and often confusing issues through the lives of ordinary workers in China.

Community teachers in Guangdong thrown on the scrapheap
10 Feb 2010
The intern trap – graduate job seekers cheated and exploited by employers
26 Jan 2010
A brief history of a workers’ rights group in China
11 Sep 2009
Shaoguan looks to the future but cannot escape the past
26 Aug 2009


	Will the New Year see a resumption of collective bargaining in China?
	As the Chinese economy recovers, an influential magazine calls on the government and trade unions to take concerted measures to alleviate the growing conflict between workers and management. Photo. Onekel


	County government squeezes out community teachers
	Two community teachers from Jianchang county in Liaoning, both fired by the local government in 2007, talk about their attempts to seek redress and the corrupt and underhand activities of local officials.


	Going it alone: a report on the state of the workers' movement in China
	CLB looks at how the workers’ movement in China has developed over the last two years, how the government has responded to it, and why the official trade union has been unable to play a positive role in it. Photo by Saad Akhtar


	Job seeker successfully sues hospital for violation of right to privacy
	A 25 year-old university graduate with Hepatitis B has, for the first time in China, successfully sued a hospital for violating his right to privacy after it gave the results of his blood test to a prospective employer.