...Fred W. Riggs Colonial Labor Policy and Administration. A History of Labor in the Rubber Plantation Industry in Malaya, c. 1910–1941 . By J. Norman Parmer . New York : J. J. Augustin , 1960 . Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies, IX. xii, 269 . Appendices, Bibliography, Maps...

... that emphasize the loneliness of Japanese career women. The biographical sketches of the activist lives of the two paid employees of Women's Union Tokyo show that their grassroots labor-organizing efforts are rooted, as in the case of the Women's Lib movement, in the anti-government, anti-war movements...

...Christopher Gerteis Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement . By Lonny E. Carlile . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2005 . x, 292 pp. $55.00 (cloth) Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 1024 T H E J O...

...Lawrence K. Rosinger The Chinese labor movement . By Nym Wales . New York : The John Day Company , 1945 . xi, 235 pp. $2.75. China enters the machine age . By Kuo-heng Shih . Edited and translated by Hsiao-tung Fei and Francis L. K. Hsu . Cambridge : Harvard University...

...Nikki R. Keddie Abstract The industrialization of Pakistan, which has proceeded at a fairly rapid pace in the decade since partition, has engendered new and growing problems for industrial labor. These problems have until recently received scant attention from either the Government of Pakistan...

...Erica Vogel Making and Faking Kinship: Marriage and Labor Migration between China and South Korea . By Caren Freeman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2011 . xiv, 263 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 In Making...

...Hyun Ok Park Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea . By Hae Yeon Choo . Stanford, Calif .: Stanford University Press , 2016 . xi, 200 pp. ISBN: 9780804791274 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Contested Embrace...

...Solomon B. Levine Labor Problems in the Industrialization of India . By Charles A. Myers . Cambridge, Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1958 . xvii, 297 . $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 526 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the net national product...

...Solomon B. Levine The Urbanization of Japanese Labor 1868–1955 . By Thomas O. Wilkinson . Amherst, Massachusetts : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1965 . xiii, 243 . Tables, Maps, Bibliography. Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966...

...Richard D. Lambert Labor Commitment and Social Change in Developing Areas . Edited by Wilbert E. Moore and Arnold S. Feldman . New York : Social Science Research Council , 1960 , xv, 378 . Name and subject indices. $3.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962...

...Bruce Glassburner Entrepreneurship and Labor Skills in Indonesian Economic Development: A Symposium . By E. D. Hawkins , Leslie H. Palmier , and H. W. Guthrie . Monograph Series No. I. New Haven : Yale University Southeast Asia Studies , 1961 . Distributed by Cellar Bookshop, 18090...

...Bill Mihalopoulos Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan . By Elyssa Faison . Berkeley and Los Angles : University of California Press , 2007 . xiv , 226 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Managing Women...

...Herbert A. Levine Labor Training in Developing Countries; A Challenge in Responsible Democracy . By Arnold Zack . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1964 . xiv, 189. Appendices, Index. $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 144 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Ching Kwan Lee Abstract Labor scholars have highlighted the predicament of “precarization” besetting the working class everywhere in the twenty-first century. Beneath the “proletariat” now stands the “precariat,” for whom exploitation seems like a privilege compared to constant exclusion from...

...Dorothy J. Solinger Inside China's Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance . By Lu Zhang . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xiv, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781316500569 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016...

...Shana Ye Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires . By Francisca Yuenki Lai . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2020 . 140 pp. ISBN: 9789888528332 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 The current field of labor...

...Jennifer Jihye Chun Abstract This essay examines the crisis of solidarity affecting workers who protest labor precarity under South Korea's capitalist democracy. Once considered foundational to the struggle for national democratization, the dramatic protests of aggrieved workers are frequently...

...Ping Zhu Abstract This article shows that the construction of the notion of dignified laborer during the Chinese New Culture Movement (1915–24) was not simply a reversal of preexisting social hierarchy that placed the mental laborers above the manual laborers but rather a complex and profound...

...Matthias van Rossum; Merve Tosun Abstract This article revisits our understanding of corvée labor regimes and their role and impact in the early expansion of colonialism and capitalism. Rather than remnants of feudal pasts, or in-kind taxation or revenue instruments of weak colonial powers, corvée...

... scholarship, yet analysts must factor in the distinct historical trajectories that shaped the forms of service that each state provided. Simeon Man's Soldiering through Empire traces circulatory connections between military laborers across an ostensibly decolonizing Asia-Pacific. American...