Historical Review of the Labor Contract System in Zhejiang Province

The development of the labor contract system has gone through different processes respectively in public and private enterprises in Zhejiang province. They have given rise to the transformation - from the administrative control and disorder to the market dominance and rationalization - of the properties of the labor relations. Meanwhile, due to the contract system, the harmoniousness and the stability of labor relation based on the planned economy have been unprecedentedly challenged and the industrial disputes have been on rise dramatically. The author of the article has summed up the achievement during the enforcement of the system of labor contracts, analyzing the serious problems in the labor relation and the reasons and coming up with the reasonable way to deal with the problems and establish a sort of harmonious labor relation.