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Labor power and political change in Taiwan, 1945-1990.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Labor power and political change in Taiwan, 1945-1990./
Author:	Dzeng, Yi-Ren.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1994,
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-04A.
Subject:	Political science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9429503

Labor power and political change in Taiwan, 1945-1990.
Dzeng, Yi-Ren.

Labor power and political change in Taiwan, 1945-1990. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1994 - 359 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1994.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

After a successful forty-year experience in industrialization, almost all socioeconomic preconditions of democracy that theories of modernization have listed--that is, high levels of urbanization, literacy rates, per capita income, and mass communication--are now present in Taiwan. However, as Samuel P. Huntington has argued, economic development may move a country to "a zone of political transition," but the direction of political change is not preordained. Many factors such as external environment, social class structure, traditional cultural context, and power struggle within and between political parties will affect the direction of political transition in Taiwan. The main purpose of this study is to examine whether the labor movement in Taiwan can play an important role in political democratization as found in Southern European and Latin American countries in the early 1980s. Basically, this study uses Frederic C. Deyo's structuralist approach (1981, 1989) to analyze the potential role of labor in Taiwan's political change. This study argues that the weakness of labor in Taiwan can be attributed not only to the Nationalist Party's (KMT) labor control system but also to Taiwan's unique economic structure. The important characteristics of export-oriented industrialization, such as the prevalence of private small-and-medium sized enterprises, the importance of state-owned firms, the decentralized industrialization to rural areas, and the recruitment of female workers into labor-intensive industries have produced an industrial labor force characterized by social atomism and low solidarity among coworkers and working-class neighbors in Taiwan. It is difficult for workers to organize themselves effectively through the formation of independent unions and collective action against economic and political elites. The political acquiescence of Taiwan's labor class suggests that successful industrialization has not increased workers' demands for political participation beyond governmental control. In fact, Taiwan has been experiencing a top-down, guided, preemptory democratization. The government has the ability to control the degree and extent of political democratization with less pressure from the popular sector than found in the democratic opening of other developing countries. This is the major reason why Taiwan can maintain relative socio-political stability in the transition from authoritarian rule.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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