The Development of Social Welfare Programs in the Yudahua Business Group, 1921-1957

作     者：Juanjuan Peng 

作者机构：Department of History Georgia Southern University Statesboro GA 30460 USA 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of History in China》 (中国历史学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第8卷第1期

页      面：104-130页

学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 12[管理学] 120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 120404[管理学-社会保障] 0603[历史学-世界史] 

主　　题：workers' welfare Yudahua labor union textile industry Chinese business history 

摘      要：By tracing the development of social welfare systems in the six cotton mills of the Yudahua Business Group from the 1920s to the 1950s, this paper argues that some private firms experienced unprecedented wartime expansion of workers＇ welfare programs. The social welfare system that was thus taking form continued during the early 1950s, but progress slowed as compared to the wartime advances. The slowness in development was largely due to the enforcement of a state policy that prioritized production requirements and class conciliation programs, thus discouraging the rapid improvements of earlier decades. State efforts to prioritize heavy industries over light industries and to standardize wages and welfare throughout the same industry within a local economy also forced some industrial workers to make sacrifices in salary and benefits.