The Generation of Labor-Management Equilibrium:A Study on White-Collar Workers from Middle-and High-Income Countries Migrating to China
By investigating white-collar workers from middle-and high-income countries migrating to China,this paper analyzes the production regime of international migrant labor regulated by the direction of migration.When workers migrate from their countries of origin to the country with lower or similar per capita gross national income,their identity and skills are at a premium,and they have a low degree of dependence on their employers regarding the reproduction of labor power.The host country also manages their employment quite flexibly.Meanwhile,labor market intermediaries also shape these workers'autonomy.Accordingly,the production regime that workers are under has an individual bargaining system,which disperses labor-management conflict and generates labor-management equilibrium.This paper offers a novel perspective on the production regime of international migrant labor,and it contributes to the research on transnational labor market intermediaries within the field of international migration studies.
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