The transformation of industrial authority and paternalistic capitalism in the global economy: case studies of Taiwan's textiles industries
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 550-568
ISSN: 1466-4399
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In: International journal of human resource management, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 550-568
ISSN: 1466-4399
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 251-266
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: Work, employment and society: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 663-685
ISSN: 1469-8722
This article is about factory regimes and more particularly about changes in factory regimes in East Asia. Its point of departure is Burawoy's early and highly influential contribution to the understanding of factory regimes (Burawoy, 1985), which has very often been associated with the idea of 'hegemonic despotism' and increased attempts by management at ideological control. The article seeks to go beyond this particular interpretation. Theoretically, it seeks to make explicit and in one case expand elements in Burawoy's original work by distinguishing three aspects of labour regimes: labour control, material support and contract. It then considers three factories in China, Taiwan and South Korea in the light of this reformulation and, by paying due regard to issues related to material support and contract, and not only to control, it advances the claim that some of the most significant changes that are occurring amount in each case to the dismantling of established labour – that is, labour that is generally permanent and relatively privileged not only with respect to wages but usually also other forms of material support.