Since 1980, workers' action in China is increasingly frequent, however they still do not have their own organisatory body, like there are in Europe or elsewhere in the world. For this reason, the process of organising labour struggle falls to the workers themselves. The subject of this research is how manners of labour organisation have changed through time, how the state has adapted to these changes, what are the official mechanisms of settling labour conflicts, and what are the means that workers employ to settle these conflicts. I will try to offer a historic review of changing relations between labour and capital and the relations between capital and the state. The historical changes of these relations through changes of political direction of the economy are important, since they determine the means of representing workers' interests, but at the same time these rapid changes in ideology create the specific situation that we are facing in China today and which we have to fully comprehend, before we start researching their labour struggles. The process of workers' empowerment in China is undeniable. I will try to provide several supporting theories about the changing of the workers' mentality and the changing value of labour. The main theoretical approaches are borrowed from Lewis and Kalecki. This study will try to present a short overview of the changes of the culture of workers' organisation in China and provide new theoretical approaches for understanding this culture.
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