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Leverage of the weak : labor and environmental movements in Taiwan and South Korea /

Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation's development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and stru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liu, Hwa-Jen, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Social movements, protest, and contention ; Volumen 42.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to readers
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: strategic comparison of two movements and two late-industrializers
  • The power bases of labor and environmental movements
  • The tangles of movement histories
  • The emergence of early-riser movements
  • Movement legacy and latecomer movements
  • Labor and environmental trajectories
  • Conclusion: what now?
  • Appendix: notes on methodology
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.