Globalisation, human rights, and labour law in Pacific Asia /

Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodiwiss, Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Temas:
Human rights > Southeast Asia.
Social values > Southeast Asia.
Labor laws and legislation > Southeast Asia.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Asie du Sud-Est.
Valeurs sociales > Asie du Sud-Est.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Human rights.
Labor laws and legislation.
Social values.
Mensenrechten.
Arbeidsrecht.
Southeast Asia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Against absolutism and relativism: 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 patriarchalist individualism
  • 5. Malaysia and authoritarian patriarchalism
  • 6. Singapore and the possibility of enforceable benevolence.

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