Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region : : A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries / / ed. by Stephen J. Frenkel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Arudsothy, Ponniah,; Brown, Andrew,; Chiu, Stephen,; Frenkel, Stephen,; Haworth, Nigel,; Hong, Jon-Chao,; Kim, Hwang-Joe,; Lee, Bih-Ling,; Leggett, Chris,; Levin, David A.,; Littler, Craig R.,; Warner, Malcolm,
• HerausgeberIn: Frenkel, Stephen J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1.Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Contexts of Trade Unionism --; Part I. Developing Countries --; 2.Chinese Trade Unions: Structure and Function in a Decade of Economic Reform, 1979—89 --; 3. Union Unevenness and Insecurity in Thailand --; 4. State Regulation and Union Fragmentation in Malaysia --; Part II. Newly Industrialized Countries --; 5. The Korean Union Movement in Transition --; 6. The Resurgence and Fragility of Trade Unions in Taiwan --; 7. Dependent Capitalism, a Colonial State, and Marginal Unions The Case of Hong Kong --; 8. Corporatist Trade Unionism in Singapore --; Part III. Advanced Peripheral Countries --; 9. Australian Trade Unionism and the New Social Structure of Accumulation --; 10. Unions in Crisis: Deregulation and Reform of the New Zealand Union Movement --; Part IV. Overview --; 11. Variations in Patterns of Trade Unionism: A Synthesis --; Notes --; References --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734694; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734694
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stephen J. Frenkel.

Contributors examine the problems and challenges of organized labor against the backdrop of changing economic and political currents in the Asia–Pacific region as a whole, and within the developing countries of China, Malaysia, and Thailand; the newly industrializing societies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore; and the advanced peripheral countries of Australia and New Zealand.