china's entry into the wto
Research program: Mobility and Exclusion
My work on the social and political effects of China's entry to the WTO includes the effect of the end of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement on both investors and migrant workers in China's labour intensive clothing, textile and footwear sector. I am currently focusing on the effect that low wages and basic conditions has had on the flow of rural-to-urban migrant workers and the attendant re-location of low-end manufacture inland to China's central and western provinces. I am also interested in the manner in which the EU and the US are using temporary quotas (agreed at the time China joined the WTO) to limit the import of labour-intensive manufactured goods. This export limiting approach taken by EU governments and the US is now well established and is likely to continue as China moves up the manufacturing chain to increasingly focus on the export of sophisticated technological products and services.
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