Search Results for labor politics

...Hwasook Nam Militants or Partisans: Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan . By Yoonkyung Lee . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2011 . xvi, 184 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013 2013 Sociologist...

...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...

... of Ming political history and Chinese institutional history in general. HUNG-LAM CHU Academia Sinica Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. By ELIZABETH J . PERRY. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993- ix, 327 pp. $42.50. Elizabeth Perry has produced more than a highly articulated...

...Alice H. Cook The Politics of Labor Legislation in Japan . By Ehud Harari . Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press , 1973 . xi, 221 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 BOOK REVIEWS...

... Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea by Hae Yeon Choo and Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea by Jaeeun Kim both approach the formation of national membership and citizenship in light of the experiences of people at the margins of nation...

... Bombay . By Sheetal Chhabria . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . xi, 235 pp. ISBN: 9780295746289 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2021 2021 Given the sheer scale of informal land and labor markets in non-Western contexts, the “slum” is often...

... in the Japanese nation-state, and as petite bourgeoisie eager to exploit local labor in the name of “Okinawa for Okinawans.” As these leaders tried to realize their vision, they met repeated resistance from men and women on the ground—cultivators, fishermen, weavers, and merchants, among them—who refused...

...Jong Bum Kwon Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States . By Jennifer Jihye Chun . Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press , 2009 . xx , 221 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Organizing...

... The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City . By Eli Friedman . New York : Columbia University Press , 2022 . xxx, 337 pp. ISBN: 9780231205092 . ...

...Hyaeweol Choi The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945 . By Theodore Jun Yoo . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2008 . xi , 316 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...Robert E. Ward The Beginnings of Political Democracy in Japan . By Nobutaka Ike . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1950 . xvi, 246 p. $3.50. Aspects of Japan's Labor Problems . By Miram S. Farley , with a supplement By William T. Moran. New York : The John Day Company...

... , and Mark Selden . 2014 . “ China's Rural Migrant Workers, the State and Labor Politics .” Critical Asian Studies 46 ( 4 ): 599 – 620 . Chen Chih-Jou Jay . 2015 . “ Zhongguo weiquan zhengti xia de jitikangyi: Taizichang dabagong de anlifenxi ” 中国威权政体下的集体抗议：台资厂大罢工的案例分析 [Protest mobilization...

... may not always generate robust solidarity, but it challenges the structures of organized abandonment that treat workers as disposable under neoliberal capitalist rule. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 labor politics labor unions neoliberal capitalism precarious...

..., in Disparaged Success, attempts to present a new and counterintuitive interpretation of labor politics in Japan. He argues that organized labor in postwar Japan succeeded in attaining benefits in terms of wages and working conditions comparable to those in other industrialized countries despite its...

... and counterintuitive interpretation of labor politics in Japan. He argues that organized labor in postwar Japan succeeded in attaining benefits in terms of wages and working conditions comparable to those in other industrialized countries despite its decentralized and divided structures. By examining labor politics...

... an interregional comparative approach to the history of the high politics of Japan s postwar labor movement. Recent scholarship on postwar Japan emphasizes the continuities between the pre- and postwar period. Carlile has done one better by centering his comparative framework on labor politics in western Europe...

... specifically on labor issues in China's burgeoning information and communications technology (ICT) industry. As such, it is a most welcome addition to the field of Chinese political economy and the political economy of development more broadly. While Yu Hong thus enjoys first-mover advantage, her book seems...

... heights in States Gains, Labor's Losses. Steeping herself in the voluminous and diverse literatures on political economy, labor politics, and globalization in France and Mexico, she has produced a work of bold conception, breathtaking scope, high imagination, refined texture, and large, fascinating...

... politically. Informative as Gipouloux's study is, it suffers from heavy reliance on the official Chinese press, especially the trade union press. The result is to accord unions a more prominent role than they probably deserve in a bottom-up view of labor politics. To his credit, Gipouloux adopts a regional...

...': the extreme political subordination and exclusion of workers" (p. 1). The 434 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES purpose of Deyo's book is to show how changing occupational, community, and political circumstances have restricted the development of East Asian labor unions and movements capable of winning concessions...