Failure and success in South Korea and Taiwan: making policy for foreign workers and state–business relations in East Asian developmental states

The politics of consent in the casino economy

“…The difference has been attributed to the stronger bargaining power of the migrant workers in the postwar European economy, and the presence of more sympathetic trade unions and non-governmental organizations fighting for their rights (Hahamovitch, 2003, p. 85). A similar contrast of migrant worker programmes has been found between harsher Taiwan's and more lenient South Korea's (Choi and Kim, 2015;Kong, 2005). Burawoy's (1985) concept of consent could be very helpful to understand the dynamics of change in the migrant worker programme.…”