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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell International Industrial and Labor Relations ReportsPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501734694
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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
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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