Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Brown is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Klappentext This book focuses on how the state has become entangled in the processes through which workers have been organized, reorganized and disorganized as social and political actors in different historical periods. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on how the state has become entangled in the processes through which workers have been organized, reorganized and disorganized as social and political actors in different historical periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Monarchs, Workers and Struggles for a Voice 3. The 1932 Coup d' état, Political Volatility and Labour's Fluctuating Fortunes 4. Radicalism, Shifting Alliances and Managing Labour's Political Space 5. Capitalist Expansion, Regime Dynamics and the Rise of Enterprise Unionism 6. EOI, Battles for the State and the Disorganization of Organized Labour 7. Organizing Labour in the 1990s: Crisis and Continuing Struggles for a Political Voice 8. Conclusion

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• Authors: Andrew Brown, Andrew (University of London Brown, Brown Andrew
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2010
• EAN: 9780415600040
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60004-0
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Labour / income economics, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Employment & Unemployment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General