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Yoonkyung Lee - Militants or Partisans - 9780804775373 - V9780804775373
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Militants or Partisans

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Description for Militants or Partisans Hardback. This book explains the origins, processes, and outcomes of South Korea's militant unionism and Taiwan's partisan unionism by investigating the interaction between labor unions and democratic institutions, especially political parties. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 1FPK; JPQB; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 452.

The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions in the decades since labor-repressive authoritarian rule ended, bringing Taiwan, in particular, into the literature on comparative labor politics.

South Korean labor unions are commonly described as militant and confrontational, for they often take to the streets in raucous protest. Taiwanese unions are seen as moderate and practical, primarily working through formal political processes to lobby ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804775373
SKU
V9780804775373
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Yoonkyung Lee
Yoonkyung Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Reviews for Militants or Partisans
"The author cogently highlights the theoretical significance of labor politics that influence the shaping, structuring, and transformation of industrial relations and union activism . . . The persuasion of the author's arguments, I recognize, is based on the many strengths of the book, including its articulated and logical construction, its well-evidenced discussion, its critical and clear theoretical reasoning, and even ... Read more

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