EAST4507 - Spring 2009

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DatoUndervises avStedTemaKommentarer / ressurser
20.01.2009Vladimir Tikhonov? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Introduction? Separate handout?
27.01.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Labour exclusion and the strategies of the later developers in the world capitalist system? Reading Materials – Obligatory 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;

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory 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.?

03.02.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Pre-history of the East Asian industrial relations paradigm – Labour in Japan/Korea before 1945? Reading Materials – Obligatory Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 96-105, 148-154, 212-221.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Patricia Tsurumi, Factory Girls – Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan, Princeton University Press, 1990; Park Soon-won, Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea, Harvard University Press, 1999.?

10.02.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Militant labour in post-war Japan – 1945-1960? Reading Materials – Obligatory Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 1-131.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Sheldon M. Garon, “The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan”, - The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 43, No. 3 (May, 1984), pp. 441-457; John Price, Japan Works. Power and Paradox in Postwar Industrial Relations (Cornell University Press, 1997)?

17.02.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? “Cooperative” labour in Japan: 1960s and later? Reading Materials – Obligatory Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 131-225.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Ikuo Kume, “Changing Relations Among the Government, Labor, and Business in Japan after the Oil Crisis”, - International Organization Vol. 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)?

24.02.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? “Peripheral” labour in post-war Japan – small enterprises, sub-contract workers, part-timers, female workers, migrant workers.? Reading Materials – Obligatory Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 1-52, 188-209.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory 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)?

03.03.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? South Korea – developmental state and the subjugation of labour: 1945-1987? Reading Materials – Obligatory Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 39-103.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Hagen Koo, “From Farm to Factory – Proletarianization in Korea”, - American Sociological Review Vol. 55, No. 5 (Oct., 1990), pp. 669-681?

10.03.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? South Korea – emergence of the independent unions in the late 1980s.? Reading Materials – Obligatory 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.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Hagen Koo, “Middle Classes, Democratization, and Class Formation: The Case of South Korea”, - Theory and Society Vol. 20, No. 4 (Aug., 1991), pp. 485-509; Lee Namhee, The Making of Minjung (Cornell University Press, 2008), pp. 213-294.?

17.03.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? South Korea – “peripheral” workforce (especially female workers)? Reading Materials – Obligatory Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 52-70.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory 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)?

24.03.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Labour market reforms in China in the later 1970s – early 1990s? Reading Materials – Obligatory Xin Meng, Labour market reform in China. 2000

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory John Knight, Lina Song, Towards a Labour Market in China (Oxford University Press, 2007)?

31.03.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? “Race to the bottom” – overexploitation of labour in the 1990s-2000s China ? Reading Materials – Obligatory Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 3-149, 172-206

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Mary Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labour in China, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 62-163.?

07.04.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Labour resistance in post-reform China? Reading Materials – Obligatory Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 149-172, 206-241.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory 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.?

14.04.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Labour in Vietnam’s post-reform economy? Reading Materials – Obligatory Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 112-131.

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory Irene Norlund, Anita Chan, “Vietnamese and Chinese Labour Regimes: On the Road to Divergence”, - The China Journal > No. 40, (Jul., 1998), pp. 173-197?

21.04.2009Jung Euisung? Tuesday 14:15 -16:00, Grupperom 1, Georg Sverdrups hus ? Globalization and international labour migration in East Asia? Reading Materials – Obligatory Yaw A.Debra (ed.), Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia (London: Frank Cass, 2002), pp. 67-95, 119-141

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory 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: Asia Monitor Resource Center, 2006).?

05.05.2009Vladimir Tikhonov ? Tuesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 8 Georg Sverdrups hus ? Conclusions and consultations? Separate handout?
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