TY - BOOK ID - 78710209 TI - Militants or Partisans : Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan PY - 2020 SN - 0804781745 9780804781749 9780804775373 0804775370 PB - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Labor unions KW - Democracy KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Labor movement KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - Political activity KW - Korea (South) KW - Taiwan KW - Politics and government. KW - E-books KW - K9300.80 KW - K9309 KW - K9418.30 KW - K9500.80 KW - S26/0815 KW - S26/0825 KW - Korea: Social sciences -- social and cultural history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) KW - Korea: Social sciences, society -- social theory, movements and protests KW - Korea: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- labor unions, guilds KW - Korea: Politics -- history -- modern period, postwar period (1945- ) KW - Taiwan--Society in transition KW - Taiwan--Labour conditions and trade unions KW - Democracy - Korea (South). KW - Democracy - Taiwan. KW - Korea (South) - Politics and government. KW - Labor unions - Political activity - Korea (South). KW - Labor unions - Political activity - Taiwan. KW - Politics. KW - Taiwan - Politics and government. KW - Business & Economics KW - Labor & Workers' Economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78710209 AB - The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions in the decades since labor-repressive authoritarian rule ended, bringing Taiwan, in particular, into the literature on comparative labor politics. South Korean labor unions are commonly described as militant and confrontational, for they often take to the streets in raucous protest. Taiwanese unions are seen as moderate and practical, primarily working through formal political processes to lobby their agendas. In exploring how and why these post-democratization states have come to breed such different types of labor politics, Yoonkyung Lee traces the roots of their differences to how unions and political parties operated under authoritarianism, and points to ways in which those legacies continue to be perpetuated. By pairing two cases with many similarities, Lee persuasively uncovers factors that explain the significant variation at play. ER -