In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity
Subtitle: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring (Anthropology of Work)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780791460337
Subjects: Gender studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Work & labour; Women; Politics / Current Events; Economic conditions; Economic History; Social Science; Taiwan; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; History; Business & Economics; Employment; Social conditions
Description: "In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity examines Taiwan's economic restructuring since the late 1980s. Anru Lee discusses the latest phase of Taiwan's socio-economic development, most importantly the dialectical relationship between its export-oriented industrialization, change in production processes, and discourse on work ethics, including the subject formation of women workers as it relates to conditions in the global economy. At the center of this study is the process by which labor-capital relations become fair and legitimate, and how they contribute to our understanding of Asian capitalism and its role in the world economy."--BOOK JACKET.