Leverage of the Weak - Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea

Klappentext Hwa-Jen Liu teaches sociology at the National Taiwan University. Zusammenfassung Leverage of the Weak enhances knowledge of movement emergence and offers the firstsystematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.Hwa-Jen Liu argues that examining material factors versus ideational factors iscrucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.

Product details

• Authors: Hwa-Jen Liu
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780816689521
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-8952-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest, and; Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology