Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region : : A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries /

Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region : : A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries / / 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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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