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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface / Deyo, Frederic C. -- Introduction / Deyo, Frederic C. -- 1. Export-oriented Industrializing States in the Capitalist World System: Similarities and Differences / Barrett, Richard E. / Chin, Soomi -- 2. The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences / Cumings, Bruce -- 3. State and Foreign Capital in the East Asian NICs / Haggard, Stephan / Cheng, Tun-jen -- 4. Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Government-Business Relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwau / Johnson, Chalmers -- 5. The Interplay of State, Social Class, and World System in East Asian Development: The Cases of South Korea and Taiwan / Koo, Hagen -- 6. State and Labor: Modes of Political Exclusion in East Asian Development / Deyo, Frederic C. -- 7. Class, State, and Dependence in East Asia: Lessons for Latin Americanists / Evans, Peter -- 8. Coalitions, Institutions, and Linkage SequencingToward a Strategic Capacity Model of East Asian Development / Deyo, Frederic C. -- Index

This book assesses the varying ways in which automobile assemblers in several countries of East and Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas have sought to enhance their efficiency and flexibility in response to heightened global competition during the 1980s and early 1990s. It then explores the implications of such managerial strategies for workers and trade unions, and the responses of unions in seeking to preserve or enhance worker welfare and voice under industrial restructuring

The rapid industrial transformation of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong has in part been sustained by state development strategies oriented exclusively toward the needs of capital. Less often have criteria relating to the welfare of workers entered directly into state policy except insofar as such criteria are supportive of growth. Underlying this pattern of strategic priorities is the insulation of development planners and corporate executives from the political demands and opposition of workers. While political controls go some distance in explaining the political weakness of East Asian workers, the more fundamental causes are to be found, first, in the nature of employment relations in these countries and, second, in the sequencing of political and economic changes during the course of industrialization.

Western industrialization has meant greater influence of workers on economic decisions, but this has not been the case for workers in East Asia. Though the authoritarian political systems in East Asian newly industrializing countries can be held partly accountable for this situation, economic structures & recurrent political & economic change also have contributed to the powerlessness of the worker in instituting social change. Comparing South Korea & Taiwan, South Korean workers seem to have capitalized more successfully on political opportunities because of their country's economic structure, regime type, & developmental sequences. A. Cole