Reforming Asian labor systems : economic tensions and worker dissent / Frederic C. Deyo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deyo, Frederic C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Asia.

Labor.

Labor policy--Asia.

Labor policy.

Industrial relations--Asia.

Industrial relations.

Working class--Political activity--Asia.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and strategies, labor politics, institutional path dependencies, and changing economic circumstances on regimes of labor and social regulation in these four countries. Of particular importance are reform-driven socioeconomic and political tensions that, especially following the regional financial crisis of the late 1990's, have encouraged increased efforts to integrate social and developmental agendas with those of market reform. Through his analysis of the social economy of East and Southeast Asia, Deyo suggests that several Asian countries may now be positioned to repeat what they achieved in earlier decades: a prominent role in defining new international models of development and market reform that adapt to the pressures and constraints of the evolving world economy.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Labor Systems, Economic Development, and Market Reform

1. Labor Systems: Social Processes and Regulatory Orders

2. Explaining Regulatory Change

3. Reforming Labor Systems: Neoliberalism, Reregulation, and Social Compensation

Part II. Deregulating Asian Labor Systems

4. Export-Oriented Industrialization and State-Enterprise Reform: Restructuring Employment

5. External Liberalization of Trade and Investment

6. The Deregulatory Face of Labor Reform

Part III. The Tensions of Reform

7. Compromising Economic and Social Agendas

8. Political Tensions of Reform: Labor Opposition and Public Disorder

Part IV. Addressing the Tensions of Reform

9. The Reregulatory Face of Labor Reform: Institutionalization, Social Compensation, and Developmental Augmentation

10. Disciplining Labor and Rebuilding the Labor Process

11. Small Enterprises, Supplier Networks, and Industrial Parks: Creating High- Skill Developmental Labor Systems

12. Contesting Reform: The Influence of Labor Politics

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801464416

0801464412

9781322505053

1322505055

9780801463945

0801463947

OCLC:

797828518