TY  - BOOK
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Chinese are the worst? human rights and labor practices in Zambian mining
T3  - Maryland series in contemporary Asian studies 2012,3 = 210
PB  - Univ. of Maryland School of Law
CY  - Baltimore, Md.
KW  - Rules and practice
KW  - Research
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Copper miners
KW  - Employment
KW  - Zambia
KW  - Copper industry and trade
KW  - Employee rights
KW  - Investments, Chinese
KW  - China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Company
KW  - Human Rights Watch (Organization)
KW  - Mineral industries
KW  - Africa
KW  - Economic conditions
AB  - I. Introduction : discourses of China-in-Africa and copper mining in Zambia -- II. Empirical problems. A. Safety records compared and contextualized -- B. The wage gap : factoring in contract workers, productivity and profits -- C. Hours -- D. Job security -- E. Unions -- III. Methodological confusions -- IV. Contextualizing the claim -- V. Conclusion : why "the Chinese are the worst. - Examines conditions at China Nonferrous Metal Mining Company  (CNMC) and Zambia's mining enterprises, and empirically evaluates practices implicating rights related to safety, wages, hours, unions, and job security in order to evaluate assertions by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that CNMC engages in labor abuses and is a "bad employer" compared to Western-based foreign investors
SN  - 1932330399
LA  - English
N1  - Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong
ID  - 746760183
ER  -