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  • 8 - Formal and Agency Workers in the 2010s

  • Xiaojun Feng, China Agricultural University
  • Book:
    The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949
    Published online:
    19 December 2025
    Print publication:
    22 January 2026, pp 189-210

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the impacts of cumulative changes since 1949 on workers. As state-owned enterprises and export-oriented factories are large users of agency workers, this chapter presents a case study of both formal and agency workers in a large state-owned enterprise with relatively stable orders, and accounts of agency workers in export-oriented factories, with relatively fluctuating orders. It thus covers the two major types of agency workers in China in the 2010s: one with job tenure of years and managed solely by user enterprises, and another one with job tenure of six months or less and managed by both user enterprises and labour dispatch agencies.