Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers
Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers

Author: Marvin J. Levine

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-20

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0585346496

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As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism.

Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies
Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies

Author: Thomas Kochan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-17

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 113480055X

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This book analyses the role of employment relations in the context of economic development in some of the key Asian economies: China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, the Phillipines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In recent years, these Asian economies have become increasingly more open and export-driven, and there is strong interest all over the world in the Asian economic `miracle' among practitioners and scholars alike. Although much has been written on this region, few books have concentrated on the human resource aspects of this growth. The authors build on the basic premise that the initial success of these countries has lain in low wages and suppression of workers' rights. However, they point out that as employment relations evolve enterprises will either pull out due to rising wages, or stay and prosper by adapting to higher wages. Cases are provided to illustrate both of these features. The evidence in the book suggests that unless a synergy is created between firm-level and state-level human resource policies in areas such as skill formation and workers' need for voice, economic growth is unlikely to be sustainable.

Labor Relations in the Asian Countries
Labor Relations in the Asian Countries

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Conference report on an international conference on labour relations in Asian countries - comprises papers and records of discussions covering the role of government and trade unions in industrial relations in different countries, trends, etc. Conference held in Tokyo 1967 mar 1 to 4.

The Challenge of Industrial Relations in the Pacific-Asian Countries
The Challenge of Industrial Relations in the Pacific-Asian Countries

Author: University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West. Institute of Advanced Projects

Publisher: Honolulu, East-West Center P

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 342

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Labour relations in Australia, Canada, India, Japan, New Zealand, and USA. Presented are articles on research, collective bargaining and labour arbitration for dispute settlement. Historical study on trade unions relation to socialist movement. References. Bibliography pp. 223-247. Conference held in honolulu 1962 apr.

Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries
Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries

Author: Walter Galenson

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1992-03-23

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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This work explores developments in the labor markets of five countries--South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines--which have undergone successful economic development during the past quarter of a century. This includes employment, earnings, industrial relations, and social security measures. While the Philippines' progress has lagged, the other four countries constitute the most successful group of the world's developing countries--offering a interesting contrast in approaches to growth. The author's methodology is comparative by specific subject, so that a correlation of developmental stages and the emergence of particular features of the labor market emerges. This study is unique in that inter-country comparisons are made in terms of specific aspects of the labor market. The work will be of interest to economists, political scientists, and sociologists concerned with problems of development. And it will be useful in pointing the way to successful development practices.