Transnational Labour Regimes and Neo-Liberal Development in Cambodia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3986567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dae-Oup Chang (0009-0000-4938-3223, Global Korean Studies, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-70 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2020.1859122 |
| OpenAlex | W3119411301 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article analyses the success and the crisis of Cambodian neo-liberal development through situating the country within global capitalism. Drawing on recent labour regime literature emphasising the multi-scalar formation of labour regimes that led to the advance of "transnational labour regimes" (TLRs), this article contends that, over the last two decades, Cambodian labour regimes have become increasingly a transnational process. The Cambodian state supported transnational employers in a desperate attempt to secure financial resources both for economic growth and as kickbacks for ruling elites. Meanwhile, non-binding private schemes and international monitoring played essential parts in maintaining TLRs, branding Cambodia an ethical producer despite poor labour standards and labour rights violations. This pattern of development, initially producing increased growth, eventually went into a crisis with the global recession from the late 2000s and escalating discontent among the local population against the Cambodian state. Labour disputes emerging from TLRs since the 2010s exacerbated already escalating disgruntlement among Cambodian citizens over the pattern of contemporary Cambodian development. Cambodia's recent turn to more outright authoritarianism and one-party rule reflects the desperate attempt of Cambodian elites to sustain TLRs and their power amid this increasing discontent
Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Civil society · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Financial crisis · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Recession · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Development and underdevelopment in historical perspective
Labor, Geography of
Doctrines Of Development
How the West Came to Rule
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Global Capitalism and Commodity Chains
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
International trade and industrial upgrading in the apparel commodity chain
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
The capitalist world-economy
The New International Division of Labour
The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism
The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia
Violent Neoliberalism
New governance of labour rights
Global production networks
Reorienting the Critique of the Capitalist World System beyond the Dichotomy between Trade vs. Production Relations
Combining global and local forces
Rethinking the international division of labour in the context of globalisation
Local Labour Control Regimes
Labor Regimes, Global Production Networks, and European Union Trade Policy
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Transnational Networks, International Organizations and Political Participation in Cambodia
World Systems Analysis
Beyond firm-centrism
Civil society, political society and politics of disorder in Cambodia
Governmentalizing Gramsci
At the Roots of Labour Activism
The Concept of National Development, 1917-1989
The new international division of labour
The Development of the Concept of Development
Social Theory's Methodological Nationalism
Methodological nationalism and beyond
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |