Regionalization And Labour Market Interdependence In East And Southeast Asia »

How can we account for the dynamic growth of East and Southeast Asian countries? Much of the debate has turned on the question of the 'state' versus the 'market' as exclusive (and often competing) explanations of the successful performance of individual countries. This book explores the distinctively interdependent nature of the East and Southeast Asian experience. As firms create a regional organization of production, the growing interdependence of national labour markets is one major outcome.

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Explains that specialization by the several countries in the region has encouraged firms to development transnational production networks, and explores how the resulting flow of capital and jobs impacts the increasingly integrated labor market into which national labor markets once insulated have been dissolved. A major concern is the dwindling power of national governments to set and enforce labor policy. The topics include the changing international division of labor in the electronics industry, growth linkages between Hong Kong and coastal China, and labor policies of Thailand and the Philippines with responses from employers and workers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.