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Gardner, Ross C.

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The paper makers of Puli: Subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan's hand-made paper industry.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The paper makers of Puli: Subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan's hand-made paper industry./
Author:	Gardner, Ross C.
Description:	410 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2747.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-07A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9537215

The paper makers of Puli: Subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan's hand-made paper industry.
Gardner, Ross C.

The paper makers of Puli: Subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan's hand-made paper industry. - 410 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2747.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1995.

As one of the "four dragons," Taiwan has achieved unprecedented economic success in the last three decades. Few dispute that this success would not have occurred were it not for the thousands of small and medium scale subcontract producers who may account for up to 90 percent of all manufacturing on the island. Despite Taiwan's economic development and the current restructuring in the world economy, however, studies of secondary forms of production such as subcontracting and outwork, often fail to pay close attention to the organization of production and the markets in specific industries in which they are involved. Further, small producers are often characterized in the literature as indiscreet and anachronistic relative to formal, large-scale capitalist production.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

The paper makers of Puli: Subcontract manufacturing in Taiwan's hand-made paper industry.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2747.
500 $a Adviser: Bernard Gallin.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 1995.
520 $a As one of the "four dragons," Taiwan has achieved unprecedented economic success in the last three decades. Few dispute that this success would not have occurred were it not for the thousands of small and medium scale subcontract producers who may account for up to 90 percent of all manufacturing on the island. Despite Taiwan's economic development and the current restructuring in the world economy, however, studies of secondary forms of production such as subcontracting and outwork, often fail to pay close attention to the organization of production and the markets in specific industries in which they are involved. Further, small producers are often characterized in the literature as indiscreet and anachronistic relative to formal, large-scale capitalist production.
520 $a In an attempt to understand how, why and under what conditions small producers are created, accumulate capital, stagnate, succeed and fail, this thesis examines one group of small capitalist subcontract manufacturers in Puli, Taiwan who, since Japanese colonial rule, have produced hand-made paper for the Asian market. The research traces how entrepreneurs in this industry weathered shifts in demand for their product and in the supply and of raw materials, capital, and labor, and the innumerable cost and price fluctuations that accompanied those shifts from 1935 to 1989. More importantly, this research documents the changing nature of social and economic relationships between factory owners and the market as the former attempt to secure some control over the latter in the face of an array of barriers and constraints in the industry.
520 $a This study found that, in the 1970s, an elite group of "center factories" within the industry formed "upstream" and "downstream" linkages to suppliers and buyers which gave them control over the access to raw material, capital, and the finished product market. Through this form of quasi-vertical integration, center factories were then able to manipulate subcontract manufacturers and use them as a buffer against rising wage costs in Taiwan and unstable and cyclical market demand for paper in Asia.
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