Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

Klappentext Shows compatibility of 'Asian values' and human rights via case studies including Hong Kong and Singapore. Zusammenfassung This substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights shows how Asian values are compatible with human rights! demonstrating how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism! while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of an 'enforceable benevolence'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the 'clash' of civilisations' and the problem of human rights; Part I. Against Relativism and Absolutism: Towards a Globally Enforceable Concept of Human Rights: 1. Transnational sociality, sociological theory and human rights; 2. The challenge of pacific capitalism: from Pax Americana to The Japanese Way? Part II. Human Rights, Labour Law and Patriarchalism in Pacific Asia: 3. The Philippines and mendicant Patriarchalism; 4. Hong Kong and individualistic patriarchalism; 5. Malaysia and authoritarian patriarchalism; Singapore and the possibility of enforceable benevolence; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Woodiwiss
• Assisted by: Chris Arup (Editor), Martin Chanock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.1998
• EAN: 9780521628839
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62883-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics