中国社会学会劳动与人力资源研究分会、中国劳动关系学院
联合举办何包钢教授学术演讲会的通知
时间：2009年10月14日（星期三）下午2：30－5：00
地点：中国劳动关系学院办公楼3层会议室，北京市海淀区增光路45号
演讲人：澳大利亚奥肯大学何包钢教授
演讲题目：对付“捣乱”的工会：沃尔玛在中国、墨西哥、德国、加拿大和美国的不同策略
热诚欢迎中国社会学会劳动与人力资源研究分会会员、中国劳动关系学院教师参加，并参与讨论。
学院外事办 劳动关系系
2009年10月6日
附：何包钢教授简历和他的演讲纲要
何包钢教授，1957年出生于中国包头市，杭州大学哲学学士、中国人民大学哲学系硕士、澳大利亚国立大学政治系博士，研究领域为中国政治、比较政治、政治理论、国际关系等，现为澳大利亚奥肯大学教授和国际问题研究主席。
其英文著作有《中国的民主化》，伦敦：洛特莱爵出版社，1996 年；《中国市民社会的民主意义》，伦敦：麦克米兰和纽约：圣·马克丁出版社，1997年；《民族主义、民族认同和中国民主化》（与郭英杰合作），阿斯吉特出版公司，2000年。
其中文主要著作有《寻找民主与权威之间的平衡：浙江村民选举之经验研究》（与郎友兴合作），华中师范大学出版社，2002 年。其翻译的西方名著有罗尔斯的《正义论》（与何怀宏、廖申白合译），北京：中国社会科学出版社，1988 年。
近年来，何包钢和一些学者对中国协商式民主的研究引起了社会广泛的关注。
Dealing with “Trouble-Making” Trade Unions: Wal-Mart’s Different Strategies in China, Mexico, Germany, Canada and the U.S.
（对付“捣乱”的工会：沃尔玛在中国、墨西哥、德国、加拿大和美国的不同策略）
Professor He Baogang, chair in international Studies, Deakin University, Australia
Wal-Mart with the 405 billion revenue is on the third place in World’s 500 largest corporations in 2008. One of Wal-Mart’s main competitive advantages is the low cost strategy. From Wal-Mart’s perspective, union presence within its operations would cause a massive blow to its bottom line. Wal-Mart’s has been successful opposed the establishment of trade unions in its organisation in the United States by exploring the weakness of America’s labour laws. American Trade Union Council had tried hard to establish trade unions within Wal-Mart, but had not been able to do so. Surprisingly China had broken the conventional practice of Wal-Mart and had successfully established trade unions across Wal-Mart stores in China. It is puzzling why Wal-Mart workers in China have their unions now whereas million Wal-Mart workers in America didn’t have unions.
Wal-Mart has adopted different strategies of dealing with trade unions. It has successfully blocked the unionization in US, but allowed the unionization in Mexico and China. It adopted “exit” option when it faced a strong active labour in Germany and South Korea. It has closed one unionized store in Canada. Whether Wal-Mart or Trade Union can win the battle in Canada remains to be seen. In all cases, the story is the same, that is, the victory of global capital power over labour and unions. Behind this victory is the operation of an economic logic, that is, companies make a profit through using cheap labour and resisting unionized well paid labour.
