Journal of Contemporary Asia

Petras, James

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000091pmid: N/A

Douglass, Michael

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000101pmid: N/A

Abstract Underlying the current process of industrial restructuring in Korea is the weakening of the social and political comerstones of Korea's “miracle” economy: low wages maintained through labor market segmentation and suppression of labor movements, state leverage over the chaebol and labor, the containment of the middle class through a state-of-war mentality, and the decentralization of industry away from the capital city through the creation of countermagnets and growth poles. Korea's success in generating its own version of a post-fordist regime of accumulation will depend as much on changes in social and political institutions as it will on pursuing an industrial path of flexible specialization.

Chu, J.J.

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000111pmid: N/A

Abstract The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes those factors which worked together in prompting the KMT government to loosen its tight control over political participation. Secondly, it illustrates how the hasty 1984 LSL legislation which the government initially hoped would win over the labour rank and file became the determinant factor in post-1980 Taiwanese labour radicalism, facilitating numerous LSL-related employer-employee confrontations.

van Schendel, Willem

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000121pmid: N/A

Wong, Loong

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000131pmid: N/A

Tsokhas, Kosmas

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000141pmid: N/A

doi: 10.1080/00472339380000151pmid: N/A