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Table 1 Worker power and the variability in workplace collective bargaining in China

From: Power resources and workplace collective bargaining: evidence from China

Labor power

Collective bargaining

Moderated mobilization

Technical negotiation

Collective consultation

Managerial domination

Structural power

S

Perception of disruption*

S

S

Association power

S

S

S

Institutional power

S

S

S

S

Exemplar

YT Union

RH Union

FX Union

WM Union

  1. “S” means “strong,” and “–” means “weak.” Strong or weak only represents an ideal situation in theoretical analysis
  2. *Employers’ perception of disruption can be seen as an actual exercise of workers’ structural power (regardless of the strength of the structural power), which is often realized in the form of wildcat strikes in China. Even though workers’ structural power is very weak in one case, as long as they exercise structural power by going on a wildcat strike, employers can still develop a strong perception of business disruption