Detailed teaching plan: EAST4507 Spring 2006
Date (normally, Thursdays every week) | Topic | Reading Materials - Obligatory | Reading Materials – Non-obligatory |
1) January 19 | Labour exclusion and the strategies of the later developers in the world capitalist system | Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, pp. 1-37. | Frederic Deyo, The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism, Cormell University Press, 1987, pp. 23-44, 182-203 |
2) January 26 | Pre-history of the East Asian industrial relations paradigm – Labour in Japan/Korea before 1945 |
| Patricia Tsurumi, Factory Girls – Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan, Princeton University Press, 1990; Park Soon-won, Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea, Harvard University Press, 1999. |
| 3) February 2 | Militant labour in post-war Japan - 1945-1960 | Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 1-131. | |
4) February 9 | “Cooperative” labour in Japan: 1960s and later | Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 131-225. |
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5) February 16 | “Peripheral” labour in post-war Japan – small enterprises, sub-contract workers, part-timers, female workers, migrant workers. | Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 1-52, 188-209. | Norma J. Chalmers, Industrial Relations in Japan: The Peripheral Workforce, Routledge, 1989. |
6) February 23 | South Korea – developmental state and the subjugation of labour: 1945-1987 | Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 39-103 | |
7) March 2 | South Korea – emergence of the independent unions in the late 1980s. | Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 103-177. |
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8) March 9 | South Korea – “peripheral” workforce (especially female workers) | Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 52-70. |
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9) March 16 | No lecture (the teacher travels to S.Korea for conference participation) |
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10) March 23 | No lecture (the teacher travels to S.Korea for conference participation) |
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11) March 30 | Labour market reforms in China in the later 1970s – early 1990s | Xin Meng, Labour market reform in China. 2000 |
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12) April 6 | “Race to the bottom” – overexploitation of labour in the 1990s China | Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 3-149, 172-206 | Mary Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labour in China, Princeton University Press, 2004 |
13)April 20 | Labour resistance in post-reform China | Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 149-172, 206-241. | Lee Ching Kwan, “From the specter of Mao to the spirit of the law: labour insurgency in China” Theory and Society, 31/2, (2002), pp. 189-228. |
14) April 27 | Labour in Vietnam’s post-reform economy | Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 112-131. |
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15) May 4 | Globalization and international labour migration in East Asia. |
| Chris Manning, “Structural Change, Economic Crisis and International Labour Migration in East Asia” The World Economy 25/3, (2002), pp. 359-385; Sellek Yoko, Migrant Labour in Japan, NY: Palgrave, 2001. |
May 11 | Conclusions/consultations |
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| May 29 | The final essay should be handed in within 15:00 PM. |