This article unravels China’s united front work in dealing with civil society, using the case of Hong Kong after the political handover since 1997. While it has been widely analyzed by scholars that state corporatism characterizes the state-society relations in China, including the state’s relations with its autonomous regions, Hong Kong as a special administrative region, however, shows that t...

Since 2005, the Dutch trade union movement has taken up the strategy of „organising‟ to recruit new groups of workers and as a broader strategy for union renewal at the grassroots level. This approach has introduced a debate in the Dutch union movement about adopting more confrontational strategies – unusual in the Dutch context that has been referred to as an example of “corporatism par excell...