From China Labour Bulletin:
A new report by China Labour Bulletin and Canada’s Rights and Democracy reveals how the lives of millions of workers were thrown into turmoil during the wholesale, shock therapy-style privatization of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
No Way Out: Worker Activism in China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reforms is based on five years of research, and draws extensively on CLB’s litigation in defence of worker’s rights. The report uses five illustrative cases to explore the many ways in which enterprise restructuring and privatization violated the human rights of laid-off workers; including their systematic exclusion from official channels of redress, the criminalization of labour protests, and the denial of workers’ rights to social security, to an adequate standard of living, to freedom of association and to freedom from arbitrary detention.
[…] The report is published as a PDF in English, French and Chinese.
