Detailed Teaching Plan EAST4507 Spring 2011
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Date |
Topic |
Reading Materials - Obligatory |
Reading Materials – Non-obligatory |
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January 25.
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Introduction
(Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Separate handout |
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February 1.
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Labour exclusion and the strategies of the later developers in the world capitalist system (Vladimir Tikhonov)
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Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, pp. 1-37; World Bank: 2006. Download text: An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth, pp. 45-81, 271-311; | Frederic Deyo, The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism, Cormell University Press, 1987, pp. 23-44, 182-203;Mary Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labour in China, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 9-62. David Waldner, State Building and Late Development, Cornell University Press, 1999, pp. 125-230. |
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February 8
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Pre-history of the East Asian industrial relations paradigm – Labour in Japan/Korea before 1945 (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 96-105, 148-154, 212-221. |
Patricia Tsurumi, Factory Girls – Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan, Princeton University Press, 1990; Andrew Gordon, The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955, Harvard University Press, 1985. Park Soon-won, Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea, Harvard University Press, 1999. |
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February 15
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Militant labour in post-war Japan – 1945-1960 (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 1-131. | Sheldon M. Garon, “The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan”, - The Journal of Asian StudiesVol. 43, No.3 (May, 1984), pp. 441-457; John Price, Japan Works. Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations(Cornell University Press, 1997) |
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February 22
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
“Cooperative” labour in Japan: 1960s and later (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 131-225. |
Ikuo Kume, “Changing Relations Among the Government, Labor, and Business in Japan after the Oil Crisis”, - International OrganizationVol. 42, No. 4 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 659-687; Makoto Kumazawa.Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996), Sanford Jacoby, The Embedded Corporation:Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States, Princeton University Press, 2004. |
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March 1
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Globalization and international labour migration in (Jung Euisung) |
Yaw A.Debra (ed.), Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia (
Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle. 2006. Hong Kong: |
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; Chang Dae-oup, Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle (Hong Kong: |
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March 8
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
“Peripheral” labour in post-war Japan – small enterprises, sub-contract workers, part-timers, female workers, migrant workers. (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
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; Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1994) |
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March 15
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
South Korea – developmental state and the subjugation of labour: 1945-1987 (Jung Euisung) |
Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 39-103. |
Hagen Koo, “From Farm to Factory – Proletarianization in Korea”, - American Sociological ReviewVol. 55, No. 5 (Oct., 1990), pp. 669-681; Alice Amsden,Asia's next giant: South Korea and late industrialization, Oxford University Press, 1992. |
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March 22
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
South Korea – emergence of the independent unions in the late 1980s. (Jung Euisung) |
Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 103-177; Kevin Gray: Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization, 2008. Routledge. |
Hagen Koo, “Middle Classes, Democratization, and Class Formation: The Case of South Korea”, - Theory and SocietyVol. 20, No. 4 (Aug., 1991), pp. 485-509; Lee Namhee, The Making of Minjung (Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 213-294. |
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March 29
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
South Korea – “peripheral” workforce (especially female workers) (Jung Euisung) |
Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper(ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 52-70. |
Lee Ok-Jie, “Gender-Differentiated Employment Practices in the South Korean Textile Industry”, - Gender and Society,Vol. 7, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 507-528; Kim Seung-kyung, Class Struggle or Family Struggle?: The Lives of Women Factory Workers in South Korea(Cambridge University Press, 1997) |
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April 5
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Labour market reforms in China in the later 1970s – early 1990s (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Xin Meng, Labour market reform in China. 2000 |
John Knight, Lina Song, Towards a Labour Market in China(Oxford University Press, 2007); Linda Yueh, “Wage Reform in China during the 1990s”, - Journal of the East Asian Economic Association, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2004, pp. 149-164.
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April 12
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Overexploitation of labour (“race to the bottom”) and labour resistance in post-reform China (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 3-241. Lee Ching Kwan, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. 2007. University of California Press, pp. 1-34. |
Mary Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labour in China, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 62-163. 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. |
The compulsory first draft sketch of the essay is to be submitted by April 15 in Fronter. The topic is to be approved by the teacher beforehand. First draft is expected to include the title, subtitle, detailed plan of the essay (with at least 2-3 sentences on the content of each part of the essay) and literature list, and to be approximately 1-2 pages long.
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April 19
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
NO CLASSES (EASTER) |
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April 26
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
NO CLASSES (EASTER) |
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May 3
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom
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Labour in Vietnam’s post-reform economy (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper(ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 112-131.
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Irene Norlund, Anita Chan, “Vietnamese and Chinese Labour Regimes: On the Road to Divergence”, - The China Journal No. 40, (Jul., 1998), pp. 173-197; John L.Gallup, “The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam in the 1990s”, - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2896, 2002 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id =636259) |
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May 10
Tuesday 14:15-16:00, seminarrom |
Conclusions and consultations (Vladimir Tikhonov) |
Separate handout |
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