This article examines the changes to and relations between labor policy and labor legislation in the context of China’s market transition with a focus on the 1994 Labor Law and the 2007 Labor Contract Law. The initial impetus to labor policy change came from the unemployment crisis at the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Since then, the state has relaxed its control over labor mobility and...

In his book What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?, Goran Therborn draws the distinction, following Nicos Poulantzas, between state power and the state apparatus. Furthermore, he defines state power as " a relation between social class forces expressed in the content of state policies, " and says that it " is exercised through the state apparatus, or more precisely, through a system of st...

Recently, the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB” or “Board”) issued three highly anticipated opinions following the Supreme Court’s decision in NLRB v. Kentucky River Community Care, Inc. , 1 involving the definition of the term “supervisor” under the National Labor Relations Act (the “NLRA” or “Act”). The Board’s decisions, which have been referred to as “the Kentucky River decisions,”...