商品描述
This book examines the Chinese vocational education system--an arena of growing significance in China's economic transformation. Over the past few decades, the central government has moved to decentralize a traditionally school-based skill development system, embracing a more market-oriented model that incorporates substantial employer involvement. This shift has produced a highly decentralized system centered on targeted training partnerships between schools and firms. These collaborations, further institutionalized by a series of reforms associated with the Made in China 2025 initiative, have helped alleviate skilled labor shortages and sustain the competitiveness of China's industrial sector globally. Yet, this book argues that neither a centralized, school-led model nor a decentralized, employer-driven approach has established the ideal institutional foundations necessary for sustainable workforce upskilling. This provocative study explores the future of skills development in China and identifies critical reforms needed to build a labor force capable of sustaining the country's economic trajectory in the decades ahead.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書探討中國的職業教育體系——這在中國經濟轉型中日益重要的領域。在過去幾十年中，中央政府已開始去中心化傳統的以學校為基礎的技能發展系統，採用更具市場導向的模式，並納入了大量雇主的參與。這一轉變產生了一個高度去中心化的系統，專注於學校與企業之間的針對性培訓夥伴關係。這些合作關係通過與《中國製造2025》倡議相關的一系列改革進一步制度化，幫助緩解了技術工人短缺的問題，並維持了中國工業部門在全球的競爭力。然而，本書主張，無論是以學校為主導的集中模式，還是以雇主為驅動的去中心化模式，都未能建立可持續的勞動力技能提升所需的理想制度基礎。這項引人深思的研究探討了中國技能發展的未來，並確定了建立一支能夠在未來幾十年內支持國家經濟軌跡的勞動力所需的關鍵改革。
作者簡介
Hao Zhang is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Labor Relations at the School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, where he has been a faculty member since 2017. He holds a PhD in International and Comparative Labor from Cornell University's ILR School. His research focuses on labor relations and collective bargaining, work and employment in the digital economy, and skill development, with a particular emphasis on China. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Industrial Relations, The China Quarterly, Management and Organization Review, and International Labour Review. He is co-author of Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: Regimes of Production and Industrial Relations in China (Campus Verlag) and editor of China's Labor Relations Development Report 2025 (in Chinese, China Labor and Social Security Publishing House). His research has informed policy initiatives in China, including those of the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
張浩是中國人民大學勞動人事學院勞動關係系的副教授及系主任，自2017年以來一直擔任該校教職。他擁有康奈爾大學ILR學院的國際與比較勞動博士學位。他的研究專注於勞動關係與集體談判、數位經濟中的工作與就業，以及技能發展，特別強調中國的情況。他的研究成果發表於多本領先的同行評審期刊，如《工業與勞動關係評論》（Industrial and Labor Relations Review）、《工業關係期刊》（Journal of Industrial Relations）、《中國季刊》（The China Quarterly）、《管理與組織評論》（Management and Organization Review）以及《國際勞動評論》（International Labour Review）。他是《超越鐵飯碗：中國的生產制度與勞動關係》（Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: Regimes of Production and Industrial Relations in China，Campus Verlag）的共同作者，並編輯了《中國勞動關係發展報告2025》（中文版，中國勞動社會保障出版社）。他的研究為中國的政策倡議提供了參考，包括國務院、人力資源和社會保障部、教育部以及全國總工會的相關政策。
