著者

上林 千恵子

出版者

法政大学経済学部学会

雑誌

経済志林 (ISSN:00229741)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.80, no.4, pp.77-112, 2013-03

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China has maintained a policy of exporting labor. It began, first, as political and economic aid projects to other developing countries, but later another project, called "labor cooperation", was added to the category of labor exports. Labor cooperation is a category for sending Chinese citizens abroad to work in areas such as construction, manufacturing and agriculture. The Japanese Technical Internship Program (TIP) receives Chinese workers through this channel of labor cooperation. In the first stage of the TIP's development in Japan, the TIP's institutional purpose of technology transfers was well-coordinated with China's labor cooperation program, since both carried the banner of Japan-China friendship and technology transfers, but as the Chinese government authorized private companies to export labor or set up overseas employment agencies as intermediaries, the system of sending workers abroad became more business-like and private companies faced tough competition. Although China's central and local governments promote the sending of workers abroad to enhance their living conditions, as well as to acquire foreign currency, tough competition in the labor export business to Japan may infringe the human rights of China's dispatch workers in Japan.