TY  - BOOK
AU  - Woodiwiss,Anthony
TI  - Globalisation, human rights, and labour law in Pacific Asia
T2  - Cambridge studies in law and society
SN  - 0511004699
AV  - JC599.A785 W66 1998eb
U1  - 303.3/72/095 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge, U.K., New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Social values
KW  - Labor laws and legislation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Mensenrechten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Arbeidsrecht
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-303) and index; 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
N2  - 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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