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WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
Volume 37, Issue 5, Pages 1147-1164Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/09500170211070442
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China; labour process; pay communication; pay transparency
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This article examines how workers in three factories in China learnt about the workplace-level pay systems and sheds light on how they can challenge the pay communication regime.
Using a labour process approach, this article examines how workers in three factories in China learnt about the workplace-level pay systems governing their employment relationships. By outlining the processes through which workers learnt about pay at work, this article sheds light on how workers, faced with a perplexing variable pay system and managerial control over pay disclosure, can overcome the pathways towards ignorance and ultimately challenge the workplace-level pay communication regime. It is shown that pay transparency, rather than being merely an outcome of managerial practices to improve employee motivation and organisational performance, is an outcome of dynamic and contested social interactions between management and labour.
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