Globalisation, human rights, and labour law in Pacific Asia / Anthony Woodiwiss.

By:

Woodiwiss, Anthony

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in law and societyPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 316 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511004699
9780511004698
0521621445
9780521621441

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Globalisation, human rights, and labour law in Pacific Asia.DDC classification:

303.3/72/095 21

LOC classification:

JC599.A785 W66 1998eb

Other classification:

86.81

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Part I: Against absolutism and relativism: towards a globally enforceable concept of human rights -- 1. Transnational sociality, sociological theory and human rights -- 2. The challenge of Pacific capitalism: from Pax Americana to the Japanese Way?

Part II: Human rights, labour law and patriarchalism in Pacific Asia -- 3. The Philippines and mendicant patriarchalism -- 4. Hong Kong and patriarchalist individualism -- 5. Malaysia and authoritarian patriarchalism -- 6. Singapore and the possibility of enforceable benevolence.

Summary: Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-303) and index.

English.

Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories.