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Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012 , written by Ho, Ming-sho, 2014

Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012 ,... Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. xxi + 247 pp., isbn 978-1137404763, $100 (hb). Taiwan today is a fully competitive democracy with secure civil liberties, a beacon to Asia and the world. It is easy to forget just how recently Taiwan was an authoritarian backwater where free speech and independent organisations were greeted with imprisonment, torture and murder. Ming-Sho Ho’s fascinating and unduly modest book Working Class Formation in Taiwan reminds us how far Taiwan has come, all the more so because it is not actually about dictatorship and abuse. Abuses there were aplenty, but for Ho’s book they are merely the background reality experienced by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Ho’s focus is on the resistance of Taiwanese workers – he is emphatic in his use of the word “resistance” – against the domination of the Japanese, of the Nationalists, of their companies, of their managers and ultimately of the democratic Taiwanese state. Much of this resistance was “nonobvious” resistance, as a consequence of which Ho advocates that labour scholars should “move beyond the bias that privileges the well-organised and ideologically articulated labor movement” (p. 7) to study http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Sociology Brill

Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012 , written by Ho, Ming-sho, 2014

Babones, Salvatore
Comparative Sociology , Volume 15 (5): 621 – Oct 7, 2016
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Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. xxi + 247 pp., isbn 978-1137404763, $100 (hb). Taiwan today is a fully competitive democracy with secure civil liberties, a beacon to Asia and the world. It is easy to forget just how recently Taiwan was an authoritarian backwater where free speech and independent organisations were greeted with imprisonment, torture and murder. Ming-Sho Ho’s fascinating and unduly modest book Working Class Formation in Taiwan reminds us how far Taiwan has come, all the more so because it is not actually about dictatorship and abuse. Abuses there were aplenty, but for Ho’s book they are merely the background reality experienced by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Ho’s focus is on the resistance of Taiwanese workers – he is emphatic in his use of the word “resistance” – against the domination of the Japanese, of the Nationalists, of their companies, of their managers and ultimately of the democratic Taiwanese state. Much of this resistance was “nonobvious” resistance, as a consequence of which Ho advocates that labour scholars should “move beyond the bias that privileges the well-organised and ideologically articulated labor movement” (p. 7) to study

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