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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frenkel, Stephen J., Editor.

Series:

Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations Reports

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

Preface

1.Theoretical Frameworks and Empirical Contexts of Trade Unionism

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

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

9. Australian Trade Unionism and the New Social Structure of Accumulation

10. Unions in Crisis: Deregulation and Reform of the New Zealand Union Movement

11. Variations in Patterns of Trade Unionism: A Synthesis

Notes

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3469-5

OCLC:

1178769584