Working Class Formation in Taiwan - Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012

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.

List 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

About the author

Ming-sho Ho is Professor of Sociology at National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Summary

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.

Additional text

“Ming-sho Ho’s new book Working Class Formation in Taiwan is an impressive work. … There is much to commend the book Working Class Formation in Taiwan and Ho should be congratulated for producing such a scholarly effort. … I regard Working Class Formation in Taiwan as an important and fascinating work of scholarship. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.” (Robert Tierney, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 46 (2), 2016)

Product details

• Authors: M. Ho, Ming-Sho Ho
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9781349487462
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48746-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, Political Theory, Social & ethical issues, Political science & theory, Terrorism, armed struggle, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Asian History, Sociology: work & labour, Terrorism, Political Violence, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, Terrorism and Political Violence, Asia—History