2007年06月25日
推薦兩本勞工研究的新書
Kevin Gray (2007), Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization, London, Routledge
| One of the most remarkable aspects of South Korea transition from impoverished post-colonial nation to fully-fledged industrialized democracy has been the growth of its independent and dynamic labour movement. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation examines current trends and transformations within the Korean labour movement since the 1990s.The Korean experience provides an excellent case study for understanding the relationship between organised labour and globalisation. Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalisation will appeal to students and scholars of Korean studies and International Political Economy, as well as Asian politics and economics. |
這本書是凱文 (跟我同個指導老師但已畢業在Sussex工作的學長) 根據博論改寫,主要是談KCTU,讀者不一定要認同他的分析,但他為了做研究(其實應該是為了老婆)學好韓文以進行田野訪談的用心值得肯定。
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Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo (2007), Globalisation, Knowledge & Labour, London, Routledge
Knowledge is playing an important role in the development of contemporary capitalism yet little is known of how labour movements produce, disseminate and utilise knowledge and how that in turn informs strategy and effects outcomes. This book seeks to redress this balance through the production of a theoretically informed yet richly empirical edited collection that raises the question of how labour movements learn, what strategies they deploy to defend their interests and to what extent processes of neoliberal globalization and the new geography of global capitalism are producing alternative geographies of labour knowledge production and practice.
第二位編輯就是我念碩士班時常混在一起的姐妹淘安妮貝爾,她的頭銜竟然不是某某博士,而是印度工會工作人員!會現這本新書是因為老師接了Routledge再思全球化系列(目前共有二十四本書)的資深編輯,其中一本就是安妮貝爾編的書,世界真小。
順便也推薦再思全球化系列的書。
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該書的作者是史迪格里茲,諾貝爾經濟學者。
他認為,以美國自由主義為主的全球化(如「世界是平的」那本書提倡的一般),為發展中國家帶來的不是繁榮和富裕,反而是更糟糕的貧富差距和社會動盪。
因為這些國家往往在制度、文化和基礎設施都還沒完備的情況下就迎接全球化,反而更讓貪腐、貧窮、剝削更為嚴重。
因此,他認為,政府應該扮演更重要的角色,做為全球化和基層弱勢族群的折衝。而非一味地放任自由市場逕行運作。