01018nam a22001457a 4500 533988 533988 260730b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Wang, Hsu Yumin 62218 Appeasing workers without great loss: Autocracy and progressive labor legislation Comparative Politics 56(2), Jan, 2024: p.149-172 In June 2007, China’s tenth national people’s congress adopted major reform of the labour market regulation system the labor contact law (LCL). On paper, the law is remarkably protective and rigid by international standards. Resisting the trend toward labor market flexibility elsewhere in the world, it strengthens dismissal protection, requires working units to pay employees social insurance premiums, and stipulates stiff penalties for enterprises that violate labor contracts. – Reproduced Authoritarianism, Labor regulations, Redistributive conflicts, judicial Independence. 62219 Comparative Politics AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 409172 IIPA IIPA 2026-07-30 56(2), Jan, 2024: p.149-172 AR139428 2026-07-30 AR