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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liu, Hwa-Jen, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Series:Social movements, protest, and contention ; Volumen 42.
Subjects:
Labor movement > Korea (South) > History.
Labor movement > Taiwan > History.
Environmentalism > Korea (South) > History.
Environmentalism > Taiwan > History.
Mouvement ouvrier > Corée du Sud > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > Taiwan > Histoire.
Environnementalisme > Corée du Sud > Histoire.
Environnementalisme > Taiwan > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Environmentalism
Labor movement
Korea (South)
Taiwan
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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