Labor Rights in East Asia

Progress or Regress

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12847649
AutoresTeri L Caraway (0009-0001-3095-6834, Twin Cities Orthopedics, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen9
Número2
Páginas153-186
Fecha de publicación2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of East Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1598-2408 • E-ISSN: 2234-6643
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1598240800002976
OpenAlexW2291043454
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas23

This article examines the impact of recent economic and political change on collective and individual labor rights in East Asia. Deploying a new index for measuring de jure and de facto labor rights, the article presents new comparative data on labor rights in the region. Democratization has produced stronger collective labor rights in much of the region, but labor laws in most countries still fall far short of international labor standards. East Asia's labor laws offer similar levels of protection for individual labor rights to the rest of the world when firing costs are taken into account, and low regional averages are primarily an effect of Singapore's extremely weak individual labor rights. Few countries have revised their labor laws in the direction of greater labor market flexibility. However, the distance between law and practice is wide, so improvements in laws are not necessarily reflected on the ground. Flexibility enters through the back door of ineffective labor law enforcement, which in turn has affected the organizing efforts of unions

De facto · Democracy · Democratization · East Asia · Economics · Enforcement · Flexibility (engineering · Labor disputes · Labor relations · Labour economics · Labour law · Political science · Politics · The labor problem · United States labor law · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies