Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia

Deyo, Frederic C.

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“…2 A few scholars have conducted surveys of unionization across less developed regions (e.g., Deyo 1997;Kubicek 1999;Kuruvilla 1996;Roberts 2002). Of course, there is also a rich historical case study literature on unions and class formation in Western Europe and North America.…”

Section: Unionization In Less Developed Countries--563mentioning

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“…ILO conventions are formal treaties and agreements signed by governments, purportedly to ensure the protection of workers' rights. Deyo (1997) suggests that infrequent signings of ILO conventions contributed to weak labor movements in Asia. These core standards include four sets of two conventions related to forced labor, child labor, gender discrimination, and workers' rights to free association and collective bargaining.…”

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Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multilevel Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries

Martin

Brady

2007

Am Sociol Rev

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Past scholars of unionization have offered exemplary cross-national studies of affluent democracies and case studies of less developed countries (LDCs). What has been lacking is cross-national research on unionization across LDCs. We conduct a multilevel analysis of the likelihood that a worker is unionized with the late-1990s World Values surveys of 39 LDCs. We propose that unionization in LDCs can be explained by the individual characteristics of workers as well as the country-level factors of institutions, industrialization, and globalization. Our analyses yield several conclusions. First, owing to the legacy of state socialism, ex-communist countries have much higher unionization. Second, our analyses show that class very effectively explains union membership across LDCs. Although skilled manual workers are more unionized than most, educated professionals stand out for their distinctively high unionization. Third, the debt crisis significantly undermined unionization through the institutional influence of International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements and the globalization pressure of debt service. Despite being the focus of much research, industrialization, democratization, the size of the state, International Labour Organization conventions, and international trade and investment are surprisingly insignificant. Decomposing the sample by communist legacy, signing an IMF agreement is significant in ex-communist countries, and debt service is significant in countries without a communist legacy. Overall, we conclude that the debt crisis has undermined unionization and class remains a powerful basis of mobilization across LDCs.

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Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multilevel Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries

Martin

Brady

2007

Am Sociol Rev

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“…These two strategies have been referred to variously as: functional v. numerical flexibility 1 (Atkinson 1984;Smith 1997;Hunter et al 1993), internal v. external flexibility (Cappelli and Neumark 2001), clan v. market (Ouchi 1980), dynamic v. static flexibility (Colclough and Tolbert 1992;Deyo 1997), and organization-focused v. job-focused employment relations (Tsui et al 1995).…”

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Organizing Flexibility: The Flexible Firm in a New Century

Kalleberg

2001

Brit J Industrial Rel

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Research on organizational flexibility should examine the linkages between numerical and functional flexibility. Unfortunately, studies of each type of flexibility generally neglect the other. Moreover, the most popular conception of the interplay between these two forms of flexibility - the core-periphery model - is incomplete in important ways. I discuss evidence and limitations of the core-periphery model of the flexible firm, and outline some promising attempts to conceptualize how organizations may combine functional and numerical flexibility. I focus mainly on the USA and the UK, though I also review evidence and issues involved in cross-national differences in organizational flexibility. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd/London School of Economics 2001.

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“…Numerous terms have been used to refer to these two strategies. The most popular among these terms are functional versus numerical flexibility (Atkinson, 1984; Smith, 1997), internal versus external (Davis‐Blake and Uzzi, 1993), clan versus market (Ouchi, 1980), dynamic versus static (Deyo, 1997) and organisation‐focused versus job‐focused employment relations (Tsui et al ., 1995). The idea of the so‐called ‘flexible firm’, focusing on the interplay between the two forms of labour flexibility, is especially challenging for researchers.…”

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The co‐evolution of functional and numerical flexibility: do technology and networking matter?

Voudouris¹

2007

New Technol Work Employ

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This study explores the relationship between functional and numerical flexibility and the moderating effects of information and communication technology use and networking by investigating the relative predictive power of two approaches: contingency and configuration. The direction of the relationship between the two modes of flexibility depends on the type of flexible staffing arrangement used. Contractors and temporaries are shown to serve different aims and to have different opportunities for evolution.

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Labor and Post-Fordist Industrial Restructuring in East and Southeast Asia

Cited by 8 publications

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Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multilevel Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries

Workers of the Less Developed World Unite? A Multilevel Analysis of Unionization in Less Developed Countries

Organizing Flexibility: The Flexible Firm in a New Century

The co‐evolution of functional and numerical flexibility: do technology and networking matter?

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