Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGOs

Lee, Chun-yi

Abstract

It is not easy to set up non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China. They have to register with the government and, for a long time, the government subjected them to a complicated qualification system. They could not register with the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MoCA) directly. They had to get sponsorship from a suitable ‘business supervision unit’ within the government (‘盨盬眯眧眔’) and only then, once they had a sponsor, were they allowed to register with MoCA. Many NGOs were unable to find a suitable sponsor, so could not register with the government. This double filter definitely impeded the development of NGOs in China. They had to turn into underground organizations without any legal status, but they still functioned.

Citation

Lee, C.-Y. (2015). Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGOs. In A. Fulda (Ed.), Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518644

• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series
• Book Title: Civil society contributions to policy innovation in the PR China: environment, social development and international cooperation
• ISBN: 9781137518637
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518644
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/748879
• Publisher URL: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137518637
• Additional Information: Chun-Yi Lee, Growing or perishing? The development of labour NGO's, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.; ; This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137518637 and http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137518637.