BEYOND ORGANIZED DEPENDENCE: A STUDY OF WORKERS' ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED LIVING STANDARDS IN GUANGZHOU
研究广州工人在经济改革后实际与感知的生活水平，发现私营和半私营企业工人受益，而国企员工感到被抛弃，具有社会和政治影响。
The economic reforms of the late 1970s in China have raised general living standards particularly in the coastal urban areas. At the same time, however, they have increased unemployment and widened inequalities. This article examines these issues in Guangzhou, one of the cities where market principles dominate, by looking at workers' actual living standards as well as how they perceive them. Clearly workers in private and semi-private industries have benefited from the economic reforms while employees of state owned industries feel betrayed and left behind. This has both social and political implications.