Working class formation in Taiwan : fractured solidarity in state-owned enterprises, 1945-2012

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Working class formation in Taiwan : fractured solidarity in state-owned enterprises, 1945-2012

Ming-sho Ho

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

1st ed

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-237) and index

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Description

This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era.

Table of Contents

1. A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Working-Class Formation 2. Researching Taiwan's Industrial Workers 3. Politics of Ethnicity: Neo-colonialism and Revolutionary Insurgency 4. Politics of Partisanship: Party-State Mobilization and Ritualism 5. Politics of Position: The Perverse Effect of Internal Labor Market Reform 6. Moonlighting and Petty Bargaining 7. From Social Movement Unionism to Economic Unionism 8. Rethinking Institution, Solidarity, and Resistance

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