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Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers

A Comparative Perspective

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Marvin J. Levine

    1. University of Maryland, College Park

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Prologue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      Pages 3-14

  5. Thailand

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-217
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    2. The Institutional Background

      Pages 219-240

    3. The Labor Law Framework

      Pages 241-253

    4. Labor-Management Relations

      Pages 255-268

    5. Worker Rights Issues

      Pages 269-297

    6. International Developments

      Pages 299-320
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About this book

As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes:
  • a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference
  • comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations
  • comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle
  • China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    Marvin J. Levine

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers

  • Book Subtitle: A Comparative Perspective

  • Authors: Marvin J. Levine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102401

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45477-6Published: 31 March 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7089-6Published: 08 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-34649-6Published: 20 August 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 476

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Sociology, general, Economics, general, Political Science

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