The Bottom Worker In East Asia

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004678231

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The Bottom Worker in East Asia by Anonim Pdf

The protagonist of The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization is a bottom worker. Bottom workers are workers in the North and the South, who have suffered from the downward pressure of hierarchy under neoliberal globalization and have been re-stratified among themselves, from employed irregularly to self-employed and the working homeless. The existing division has become increasingly more fluid as the disparities in working conditions and wages are compressed downward. The book examines workers’ entrapment at the bottom, getting off the bottom, and intersecting each other by analyzing how they work, reside in, and build lifeworlds in cities and suburbs of four East Asian countries. In this way, it draws a dynamic picture of the contemporary working class. Contributors are: Tatsuto Asakawa, Ilju Kim, Jah-Hon Koo, Ashita Matsumiya, Yuko Matsusono, Shinji Sakamoto, Keishiro Tsutsumi, Keiko Yamaguchi, and Tsubasa Yuki.

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Institute of East Asian Studies University of California - B
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037787614

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Putting Class in Its Place by Elizabeth J. Perry Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800054

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East Asia Pacific at Work by World Bank Pdf

The unprecedented progress of East Asia Pacific is a triumph of working people. Countries that were low-income a generation ago successfully integrated into the global value chain, exploiting their labor-cost advantage. In 1990, the region held about a third of the world’s labor force. Leveraging this comparative advantage, the share of global GDP of emerging economies in East Asia Pacific grew from 7 percent in 1992 to 17 percent in 2011. Yet, the region now finds itself at a critical juncture. Work and its contribution to growth and well-being can no longer be taken for granted. The challenges range from high youth inactivity and rising inequality to binding skills shortages. A key underlying issue is economic informality, which constrains innovation and productivity, limits the tax base, and increases household vulnerability to shocks. Informality is both a consequence of stringent labor regulations and limited enforcement capacity. In several countries, de jure employment regulations are more stringent than in many parts of Europe. Even labor regulations set at reasonable levels but poorly implemented can aggravate the market failures they were designed to overcome. This report argues that the appropriate policy responses are to ensure macroeconomic stability, and in particular, a regulatory framework that encourages small- and medium-sized enterprises where most people in the region work. Mainly agrarian countries should focus on raising agricultural productivity. In urbanizing countries, good urban planning becomes critical. Pacific island countries will need to provide youth with human capital needed to succeed abroad as migrant workers. And, across the region, it is critical to ‘formalize’ more work, to increase the coverage of essential social protection, and to sustain productivity. To this end, policies should encourage mobility of labor and human capital, and not favor some forms of employment - for instance, full-time wage employment in manufacturing - over others, either implicitly or explicitly. Policies to increase growth and well-being from employment should instead reflect and support the dynamism and diversity of work forms across the region.

Author : Ku, Inhoe,Saunders, Peter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800888982

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Poverty and Inequality in East Asia by Ku, Inhoe,Saunders, Peter Pdf

This insightful book addresses the urgent need for robust evidence on recent trends and factors contributing to poverty and inequality in East Asia. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCSD:31822023714322

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Involving Workers in East Asia's Growth by Anonim Pdf

Considers the achievements and challenges facing East Asia's workers. The report reviews labor outcomes and evaluates the benefits of rapid growth to workers and the impact that the region's role in the global economy has had on them. It also examines labor market policies and institutions in the region, labor in the transition economies, and the outlook for East Asian workers in the 21st century. Also available: "World Development Report 1995: Workers in an Integrating World" Stock no. 61102 (ISBN 0-19-521102-2).

Author : Silvia Vignato,Matteo Carlo Alcano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Labor
ISBN : 6162151433

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Searching for Work by Silvia Vignato,Matteo Carlo Alcano Pdf

"More and more, in Southeast Asia, low-skilled labor is expected to be mobile and job-seeking implies leaving. In factories, plantations, fields, extraction, commerce, services, and construction, a whole nebula of low-paid, mostly young, small-scale migrants allows the regional economy to function. This volume brings together a unique collection of bottom-up accounts of the work and life of locally mobile workers who are highly representative in their countries and throughout the region: contractual farmers in Laos, miners, young urban workers in services, construction workers in Indonesia, Filipino shoemakers, and Vietnamese factory workers. The chapters focus on these laborers' gendered ideas of work and life at large but also on the ideology of work they have constructed. In addition to telling these stories, the contributors analyze how ill-defined mobile work leads to lives of structural and symbolic precariousness. In different ways, precarization is questioned as a specific gendered economic policy within neoliberal contexts. The workers' reflexive considerations of their makeshift life projects lead to descriptions of embodied forms of resilience and creativity, however diverse. Through interdisciplinary approaches, heightened attention is paid to the interaction between localities, moral economies, and global neoliberal politics"--Back cover

Author : Kevin Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317613091

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Labour and Development in East Asia by Kevin Gray Pdf

The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes centring round wages and working conditions have been met with a more permissive response on the part of the state, as the CCP ostensibly seeks to facilitate a transition away from a model of political economy based on ‘low-road’ labour relations and export dependence. Labour and Development in East Asia shows that such inter-linkages between labour, geopolitical transformations, and states’ developmental strategies have been much more central to East Asia’s development than has commonly been recognised. By adopting an explanatory framework of the labour-geopolitics-development nexus, the book theorises and provides an historical analysis of the formation and transformation of the East Asian regional political economy from the end of the Second World War to the present, with particular reference to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China. This book will be required reading for students and scholars of international relations, development studies and comparative politics.

Author : A. Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230511132

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Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840 by A. Kaur Pdf

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labour systems. There are five main themes - labour processes, migration and labour systems; labour circulation or mobility; the gendered nature of labour relations; and, class consciousness, worker organization and labour standards. A wide-ranging study which will be of great interest to historians, economists and Asia specialists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821333453

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Involving Workers in East Asia's Growth by Anonim Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 343. Chapters review the background of freshwater biodiversity in Asia and focus on its significance to riparian peoples and the threats and mitigation of its impacts. The book examines related legal instruments and provides a biodiversity review of each Asian nation. Fisheries are given particular attention.

Author : James Midgley,Kwong Leung Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135255664

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Social Policy and Poverty in East Asia by James Midgley,Kwong Leung Tang Pdf

This book looks at the role of social policy and particularly social security in addressing the ongoing challenge of poverty in East Asia despite the region’s spectacular experience of economic growth in decent decades. The East Asian miracle resulted over the last four decades in a transformation of the region’s traditional agrarian economies and significant increases in standards of living for many ordinary people. Even though it was given little attention, poverty has remained an ongoing problem. The problem became particularly evident however with the Asian financial crisis of 1997 when many low income and middle class workers became unemployed. As a result of this crisis, the need for effective social policies and social security programs were recognized. The idea that economic growth would solve the problem of poverty was increasingly challenged. Even in China today, where rapid growth has created new employment opportunities and the promise of prosperity for many, the government has recognized that the problem of poverty cannot be addressed only through economic growth but that comprehensive social policies must be formulated, and this includes the development of an effective security system.

Author : Yana van der Meulen Rodgers,Günseli Berik
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Information technology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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International Trade and Wage Discrimination by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers,Günseli Berik Pdf

This study explores the impact of competition from international trade on wage discrimination by sex in two highly open economies. If discrimination is costly, as posited in neoclassical theory based on Becker (1959), then increased industry competitiveness from international trade reduces the incentive for employers to discriminate against women. Alternatively, increased international trade may contribute to employment segregation and reduced bargaining power for women to achieve wage gains. The approach centers on comparing the impact of international trade on wage discrimination in concentrated and nonconcentrated sectors. The effect of international trade competition is expected to be more pronounced in concentrated sectors, where employers can use excess profits in the absence of trade to cover the costs of discrimination. Wage discrimination is proxied by the portion of the wage gap that cannot be explained by observable skill differences between men and women. The empirical model is estimated using a rich panel data set of residual wage gaps, trade ratios, and alternative measures of domestic concentration for Taiwan (China) and the Republic of Korea during the 1980s and 1990s. Results indicate that in contrast to the implications of neoclassical theory, competition from foreign trade in concentrated industries is positively associated with wage discrimination. These results imply that concerted efforts to enforce equal pay legislation and apply effective equal opportunity legislation are crucial for ensuring that women's pay gains will match those of men in a competitive environment. This paper--a product of the Gender Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to understand the impact of trade on labor markets.

Author : Chak Kwan Chan,Kinglun Ngok
Publisher : Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415728371

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Welfare Reform in East Asia by Chak Kwan Chan,Kinglun Ngok Pdf

In many Western countries, social welfare payments are increasingly being made conditional on recipients doing voluntary work or attending job training courses, a system known as "welfare-to-work" or "workfare". Although social welfare in Asia is very different to the West, with much smaller social welfare budgets, a strong self-reliance and a much higher dependency on family networks to provide support, the workfare approach is also being adopted in many Asian countries. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of how welfare reform around work is implemented in leading East Asian. Based on the experiences of seven East Asian economies - including China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau - this book critically analyses current trends; the social, economic and political factors which lead to the implementation of workfare; compares the similarities and differences of workfare in the different polities and assesses their effectiveness.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821396261

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Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Pdf

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9221308499

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Access to Justice for Migrant Workers in South-East Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415680899

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Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia by Malcolm Warner Pdf

Reading Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia will allow you to gain a profound understanding of the cultural complexity in this dynamic region of the world.' - Nancy J. Adler, McGill University, Montreal'We all need to understand more about management in East Asia, and to learn from it. Managing Across Diverse Cultures in East Asia has contributions from international experts who provide significant insights into the cultures of the most dynamic region in the world today. This book is a landmark publication.' - John Child, University of Birmingham'This edited volume, with contributions by significant scholars from around the globe, provides a timely and penetrating review of management issues across East Asia, a region that rivals Europe and North American in economic significance and is still ascending.