... in most programs of labor market reform: the deregulation of labor markets. It then considers tensions of social reproduction and protection, with particular emphasis on how increasing labor market fluidity and a corresponding growth in contingent and contract employment reduce training incentives...

...This chapter examines the reregulatory face of labor market reform by focusing on social accommodation as it relates to labor markets and social policy. More specifically, it considers how Asian governments have sought to manage the tensions associated with labor market reregulation by redirecting...

...This chapter examines the role of small-enterprise policy in addressing the developmental deficits of labor market reform. Asian governments have pursued a variety of policies designed to foster and stimulate small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In most cases, those efforts were directed...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of labor market reform. In times of economic crisis, policy makers undertake labor market reform in order to bring forth rapid economic turnarounds, yet reform is constrained by the existing institutional structure of the labor market that shapes...

...This chapter examines the political processes and outcomes of Japan's labor market reform over the past two decades. During this time, Japan has adopted more market-oriented principles in the labor market than before, such as the increase of labor market flexibility and the diversification...

...This chapter demonstrates the advantages of the absence-of-alternatives approach presented in this book over other corruption explanations. It also presents definitions of the arguments' core concepts—basic needs, market reform, legacy of significant state economic intervention, and market...

...This chapter demonstrates how market reform has limited market actors' ability to provide goods and services, and thus has encouraged citizens to seek them illicitly from government officials. Interviews with ordinary citizens and officials reveal that market reform in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has...

... increased efforts to integrate social and developmental agendas with those of market reform. Using analysis of the social economy of East and Southeast Asia, the book suggests that several Asian countries may now be positioned to repeat what they achieved in earlier decades: a prominent role in defining new...

... and employment among Asian manufacturing workers over the past thirty years of industrialization, globalization, and market reform. Labor systems Social reproduction and protection Export oriented industrialization Labor markets Gordon David Burawoy Michael Labor process Regulatory regimes Harvey David...

... policy, and development that directly or indirectly help elucidate the labor implications of market reform. It has also discussed the industrial sectors of the four Asian countries to illustrate contrasting contexts and trajectories of reform in the region. Finally, it has suggested a more general...

...This chapter focuses on the institutional arrangements of the labor market to explain the political process and outcome of labor market reform. Under the institutionalized practices of employment protection covering a large proportion of the workforce, insiders, employers, and policy makers...

...This chapter analyzes how the small proportion of the workforce covered by employment protection—as well as decentralized industrial relations based on large chaebŏl unions—have shaped the political dynamics of Korea's labor market reform over the past two decades. Under the conditions of less...

...This chapter shows how market reform has limited the ability of Islamic institutions and secular charities to meet basic needs in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Interviews conducted with representatives of these groups and with ordinary citizens confirmed that these organizations provide limited...

... provide them with the goods and services they need because market reform under the conditions of a legacy of significant state economic intervention and weak market-enhancing institutions has limited these institutions' resources. acquaintances corruption variation across individuals coworkers credit...

...This chapter sets out the book's two main arguments about the causes of corruption. First, when essential goods and services are not available from alternative sources, individuals engage in corrupt behaviors to try to acquire what they need from government officials. Second, market reform—policies...

... Washington Consensus labor regulation social regulation labor systems regulatory reform path dependence functional adaptation strategic innovation social conflict critical regulation theory market reform One of my primary goals is to identify and explain national trajectories of labor and social...

... and mutually articulated. This new orthodoxy is referred to as the Washington Consensus. This chapter first considers the role of the state under market reform before discussing globalization in relation to state displacement and state transformation. It then locates market reform within the context...

... and in devolving regulatory authority to local levels. It then asks whether increased labor market flexibility, and a corresponding increase in employment contingency, implies an increase in informality as claimed by some critics of labor market reform. It also discusses the extent to which the Asian experience...

... problem in contemporary Russia: normalcy, ownership, and justice. Studying housing in Russia yields important insights into market transition in the country, how market reform affects Russian families, and the American housing regime. Part I of the book explores how Russia's housing regime developed...

... and Japan, which have advanced labor market reform and confronted the rapid rise of a split in labor markets between protected regular workers and underprotected and underpaid nonregular workers. The two countries have implemented very different strategies in response to the pressure to increase labor...