Asian political science

Description:This process inevitably involves the interactive dynamics between organized labor, employers, and the government. In the study of East Asia, a region that has attracted more scholarly attention for its economic performance and geopolitical conflict, the subject of labor issues and labor politics has received less academic scrutiny. Yet, serious intellectual works have been produced to bring back labor to our analytical horizon in order to build systematic knowledge of East Asian society and political economy, especially against the prevailing and simplified view of Asian workers as a productive and docile workforce. The literature on East Asian labor politics identifies how geopolitics set the Asian workers on a separate trajectory compared to the working-class movements in Europe and Americas, highlights how the political-economic structure hindered or promoted the formation of labor movements, traces why organized labor failed to settle as a significant social force in democratic politics, problematizes the persistent gendered hierarchies and inequalities in and out of workplaces; and raises possibilities of new forms of labor mobilization and alliances against rising inequality and fragmentation in neoliberalized economies. Overview and Comparative Studies Starting from Deyo , scholars have studied Asian labor more seriously and systematically by including labor in their analytical equation of East Asian political economy, society, and politics. These studies highlight the shifts taking place in labor institutions against concomitant political and economic transformations in the region.

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