Founding Of New China, The Labor Relations Studies

This thesis, guided by Marxist theories about labor relations, starts with a overview of policies and measures that the Chinese communist party proposed to regulate labor relations in the early days of new China. By using Shanghai Municipal Government's practice of handling labor relations in the private enterprises in the early post-liberation days as an example, the thesis presents the dynamic changes in the then labor relations in the private sectors, analyses the causes of the tensions and contradictions in the labor relations and sums up the experience of the governments settling the labor conflicts. Finally the thesis arrives at the conclusion that the public power of the government plays a dominating role in regulating labor relations in China, therefore, the government should play its leading role in settling the labor conflicts, coordinating labor relations, promoting the three parties, that is, the government, the labor and the management, to interact effectively so that the interests of the labor and the management can be balanced.The thesis consists of four parts:the first part first outlines the labor relations theories of the classic writers of Marxism-Leninism as well as the CPC's labor relations theory of New Democracy, pointing out the intrinsic link between the two:the new democratic labor theories, guided by the labor theories of Marxism-Leninism and grounded in the CPC's objective understanding of China's then national conditions and Chinese national capitalism, is in fact the inheritance and advance of Marxist-Leninist theory about labor relations.PartⅡ, taking Shanghai, where Chinese national capitalist economy was the most advanced and the labor relations the most complicated,as an example, describes dynamic process that the labor relations changed,that is, laboor relations changed from being confused to normal, then tense again, then normal and orderly, then extremely tense, eased, also the thesis explores the reasons behind.Part III elaborates the policies and measures which then Shanghai Municipal Government adopted to regulate the labor relations, which included that the Government, in line with the principle of benefiting both labor and capital, introduced suitable adjustments in industry and commerce and formulated labor policies, and at the same time promoted the labor union and the association of industry and commerce to actively play their part in the adjustment of labor relations.Part IV sums up the lessons and experience of Shanghai Municipal Government regulating labor relations in the early days of post-liberation, and also expounds the general revelation that Shanghai's practice gives us to settle the conflicts in the current labor relations.