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Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979

ISBN: 9788791114267

Better to Rely on Ourselves: Changing Social Rights in Urban China since 1979

by NIAS

Hatla Thelle

2004. 367 pp. 14x21cm

This study analyses changes in the protection of social rights in China since 1979 for the middle-income level of the urban population, based on family interviews and documentary studies. It tells how conditions for employment, housing, social security and education have undergone a complete transformation as a consequence of the transition to a market economy.

While the individual citizen has benefited from more freedom of choice and movement, there is less stable protection of the right to work, health care, housing and education. Moreover, channels of popular participation in the decision-making process remain fragile and knowledge of complaints mechanisms and legal remedies is poor.

About the Author

Hatla Thelle is a China specialist, and a researcher and project manager at the Danish Institute for Human Rights in Copenhagen. Since 2006 she has been head of the China Unit. Thelle's main research interests include modern Chinese society and politics, social rights, gender studies, and law reform in countries in transition. She is currently researching the establishment of a legal aid system in China.

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