Detailed Teaching Plan EAST4507 Spring 2010

Date (normally, Fridays every week)

Topic

Reading Materials - Obligatory

Reading Materials – Non-obligatory

1) January 22

Introduction

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Separate handout

2) January 29

Labour exclusion and the strategies of the later developers in the world capitalist system

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

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;

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.

3) February 5

Pre-history of the East Asian industrial relations paradigm – Labour in Japan/Korea before 1945

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 96-105, 148-154, 212-221.

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.

4) February 12

Militant labour in post-war Japan – 1945-1960

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 1-131.

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)

5) February 19

“Cooperative” labour in Japan: 1960s and later

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Andrew Gordon, The wages of affluence : labor and management in postwar Japan, pp. 131-225.

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

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)

6) February 26

Globalization and international labour migration in East Asia

(Jung Euisung)

Yaw A.Debra (ed.), Migrant Workers in Pacific Asia (London: Frank Cass, 2002), pp. 67-95, 119-141

Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle. 2006. Hong Kong: Asia Monitor Resource Centre, pp. 3-65, 181-215

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).

7) March 5

“Peripheral” labour in post-war Japan – small enterprises, sub-contract workers, part-timers, female workers, migrant workers.

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 1-52, 188-209.

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)

8) March 12

South Korea – developmental state and the subjugation of labour: 1945-1987

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Seung-Ho Kwon and Michael O'Donnell, The chaebol and labour in Korea : the development of management strategy in Hyundai, 2001, pp. 39-103.

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

9) March 19

South Korea – emergence of the independent unions in the late 1980s.

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

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.

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.

10)March 26

South Korea – “peripheral” workforce (especially female workers)

(Jung Euisung)

Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 52-70.

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)

11) April 2

NO CLASSES

12) April 9

NO CLASSES

The compulsory first draft sketch of the essay is to be submitted by April 16 (preferably electronically: vladimir.tikhonov@ikos.uio.no.). The topic is to be approved by the teacher beforehand. First draft is expected to include the title, subtitle, detailed plan of the essay (with at least 2-3 sentences on the content of each part of the essay) and literature list, and to be approximately 1-2 pages long.

13) April 16

Labour market reforms in China in the later 1970s – early 1990s

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Xin Meng, Labour market reform in China. 2000

John Knight, Lina Song, Towards a Labour Market in China (Oxford University Press, 2007)

14) April 23

Overexploitation of labour (“race to the bottom”) and labour resistance  in post-reform China

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Anita Chan, China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy, pp. 3-241.

Lee Ching Kwan, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt. 2007. University of California Press, pp. 1-34.

Mary Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labour in China, Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 62-163.

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.

15) April 30

Labour in Vietnam’s post-reform economy

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Dong-Sook S. Gills and Nicola Piper (ed.), Women and work in globalising Asia, pp. 112-131.

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

16)  May 7

Conclusions and consultations

(Vladimir Tikhonov)

Separate handout