Working Class Formation in Taiwan [electronic resource] : Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012 /
Ho, Ming-sho.author.
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.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Romanization; Abbreviations; 1 A Historical Institutionalist Approach to Working Class Formation; The Culturalist Approach; Addressing the Questions of Solidarity and Nonobvious Resistance; A Historical Institutionalist Approach; What Is an Institution?; How Do Institutions Change?; Mapping Workers' Resistance; (1) Defensive/Offensive; (2) Hidden/Public; (3) Getting/Becoming; (4) Competitive/Collaborative; 2 Researching Taiwan's Industrial Workers; Industrialization in Taiwan
Explaining the Labor QuiescenceExplaining Labor Militancy; The Particularities of SOE Workers; Sugar Workers and Petroleum Workers; Research Data; Sugar Workers under Colonialism: The Formation of Labor Aristocrats; Petroleum Workers: The Nascent Proletarianization; 3 Politics of Ethnicity: Neocolonialism and Revolutionary Insurgency; Taiwanese Industry Recolonized2; (1) Carpetbaggery; (2) Corruption; (3) State Extraction; Defending Factories during the February 28 Incident; Underground Insurgency: A Failed Communist Revolution in Taiwan; Ethnic Domination Consolidated
The Choice of Taiwanese Labor AristocratsConclusion; 4 Politics of Partisanship: Party-State Mobilization and Ritualism; The Party-State as an Institution1; Building the Leninist Infrastructure in the Workplace; Managerial Autonomy under Assault; Implanting a Security Control Apparatus; Political Mobilization of Workers; Limited Successes of the Party-State Penetration; Using "Service" to Win Workers' Loyalty; Using Union Positions to Patronize Loyalists; Workers' Responses to Party-State Mobilization; Co-opted Taiwanese Workers as a Minority; Conclusion
5 Politics of Position: The Perverse Effect of Internal Labor Market ReformFrom Qualifications to Performance; The Illusory Objectivity; The Pseudocompetition for Promotion; An Emerging Politics of Position; The Deepened Difference between Staff and Operatives; "Going through the Back Door"; Guanxi in Social Context; Conclusion; 6 Moonlighting and Petty Bargaining; Taking an Additional Job; From Moonlighting to Small-Scale Entrepreneurship; Consequences of Moonlighting; Preconditions for Petty Bargaining13; Converting Labor Unions from Below; The Emergence of Petty Bargaining
The Limits of Petty BargainingConclusion; 7 From Social-Movement Unionism to Economic Unionism; From Political Activism to Union Activism; Independent Unionism as an Anti-KMT Movement; Labor Activism in Taiwan: Public Sector and Private Sector; Independent Unionists' Recipe for Success; The Contours of Social-Movement Unionism; An Ecological Explanation of Union Success and Failure; The Decline of Social-Movement Unionism; Privatization as a Threat; Conclusion; 8 Rethinking Institution, Solidarity, and Resistance; Intraclass Divide and Its Theoretical Implications
Rethinking Workers' Resistance and Class Solidarity
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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