Labor and Economic Growth in Five Asian Countries
Senser, Robert A.
in myself in favor of Jewish doctors." The sophomoric writer of "What the Cystoscope Said," published in 1954, THE PRICE OF 'ECONOMIC MIRACLES' hasn't matured in the later...
...and foreign employ- strength is that it attracts foreign busiDepartment's "Foreign Labor Trends" se- ers generally work diligently to keep their nesspersons, their investment capital, and ries...
...In that decline both governments have taken a long series of extralegal actions against workers and their t organizations...
...Thailand, and the Philippines...
...Not for school, but for life...
...He cites many writers, LABOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN FIVE gardless of its ideological inspiration...
...Box 671 Under the harsh realities of the region, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938 any conduct other than docility makes Application deadline is January 25, 1993 workers subject to severe punishment from the employer and even from the po- The Visitation School is an Equal Opportunity Employer lice...
...For example: A friend with lung can- Robert A. Senser is not among the region's economic tigers, cer dies not of his disease, says Broyard, the Philippines, and excludes two city-states but because a stroke left him unable to that are, Singapore and Hong Kong...
...almost every annual conference of the International Labor Organization in Interested candidates should submit a letter of intent, resume, and the Geneva...
...Income disor someone else, over a malignant growth, annual reports of the United Nations tribution has shown little progress, and the a painful or isolating disability, or a pre- Development Program (UNDP) spell out evidence of that is "not unambiguous," he mature or lonely death, instead of giving the difference, a belated finding still not writes...
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...Labor to join a union, U.S...
...Since erage enrollment of 500 students with an operating budget of approxithen it has worked closely with foreign em- mately $3.7 million...
...Association...
...Statutory igrate the expression of agony, in ourselves human development...
...takes into account the gross violations of Although Galenson compiles a great human rights that afflict much of the re- deal of miscellaneous historical informaAnother of our "Books of Distinction" gion...
...For that Broyard wrote this sentence, and most ing their bustling modernity...
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...Mon-Sat 302.764.8918,9.9 EST vulnerable persons in any economy, re- The reason for this omission may be that 24: 15 January 1993 Commonweal he gathers a great deal of his information their workers have the right to join or not development...
...Its long-term weakness is vide incriminating information about East port...
...This repression, incredible in its dents' motto...
...This anomaly is not unusual in East Asia...
...1:1 ognize the difference, and thus seldom you look behind his macro data...
...national and transnational collaboration to Vital to an evaluation of the East Asian repress the basic rights of workers...
...He's read a lot, and discusses literature's contribution to the understanding of illness...
...committee of the New York City Bar employers have evolved various forms of Pay by MasterCard, VISA, or check...
...Even that veal the truth, but Intoxicated by My ber governments...
...Located in the suburban Twin Cities, the school has an avthe promise of a ban on unionism...
...development model is how economic Information about that repressive collabOne Wellington Rd...
...But as published economists view them as development erally made gains through more jobs, eswork, his idiosyncrasies are none of these models for the whole third world...
...Price (including P&H): apore by the international human rights how authoritarian governments and foreign Hardcover $21.00...
...The giving everybody-from Tolstoy to Bernie ASIAN COUNTRIES latest book by Walter Galenson, professor Siegel, Kafka to Kubler-Ross-equal South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, emeritus of economics at Cornell Uniweight, but his insistence on false paral- Thailand, and the Philippines versity, briefly explores this neglected lels and metaphors and his overblown Walter Galenson subject for South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, claims for the gift of language drown out Praeger, $39.95, 144 pp...
...Mendota Heights, Minnesota A major case in point is the persistent HEAD OF SCHOOL but unsuccessful effort of the country's electronic workers to affiliate with an ex- for July 1, 1993 isting national union or to form a national union of their own...
...Suite 15 growth has benefited ordinary working oration is essential for an understanding Wilmington, DE 19803.4129 stiffs, who generally are among the most of the East Asian free-market model...
...Literature's purpose is to re- national organizations or by their mem- being modern welfare states...
...chewing gum to the "demise of the rule authoritarianism impacts on industrial re84 extremely thought-provoking short chapters...
...I am sure that to to be impressed by East Asian GNP fig- walled off by borders-a perspective that his family and friends his ability to keep ures...
...Acceptance of Broyard's words or Of course economic development, as higher real earnings in manufacturing tone could tempt readers to dismiss or den- usually conceived, is not the same as jobs, partly because of long hours...
...The model's short-term from the World Bank and the U.S...
...Most significantly of all, he ignores Highly recommended...
...The philosophy is expressed in the stuwomen...
...a businessperson, without admir- both Singapore and Hong Kong...
...P.O...
...Francis come a recurring and unresolved issue at de Sales, and the spirit of the Midwest...
...This collaboration in repression, as that it bestows far more freedom and privAsian violations of basic rights and about practiced especially against women work- ilege on a relatively small number of tranthe environment in which they flourish...
...tame the dreadful thing that was happen- "little dragons" (Japan being the big drag- His country-specific findings are that ing to him, were therapeutic and ad- on), has been so vigorous that many workers within the five countries have genmirable and lovable...
...El and Malaysia...
...The euphoric literature acknowledgment does not accurately porIllness is a denial and falsification of suf- about East Asia also seldom bothers to rec- tray the status of the area's workers, once fering...
...This seleclessons the good writers, at least, have for tion includes one East Asian country that us...
...The 1991 and 1992 social benefits are meager...
...of law," to quote an indictment of Sing- lations...
...More fun- V SIT~I TI~OI damentally, the government of Malaysia simply bends or ignores the country's own laws and regulations to maintain control of the labor force and to keep foreign Convent of the Visitation School businesses happy...
...The school has a family atmosphere in which each stunumber about 120,000, most of them dent is known and appreciated...
...a similar discriminatory characteristic, Association study, for example, docu- Although it escapes Galenson's analy- which over time sealed its fate...
...market for massive imports ganizations such as Asia Watch, which pro- tion of the local governments for direct sup- from East Asia...
...Ironically, Malaysia gives foreign names of three professional references to: employers, including the large American contingent, full freedom to form their own Gregory Floyd, Vice President associations to protect their own interests...
...Supporting Visitation's scope, intensity, and duration, has be- purposes and goals are the Gospel, educational principles of St...
...So it is a misleading understatement to of write, as Galenson does, that the labor movement in Malaysia is handicapped by "strict government regulation...
...And matter, he tends to see each country's of Intoxicated by My Illness, during the you don't have to be an econometrician labor market policies and practices as last months of his life...
...Founded by the Sisters of the Visitation in 1873, ployers to keep genuine unions out of the Visitation School students grow in an environment fostering self-esteem reach of the industry's workers, who now and leadership...
...In fact, the economic growth of some weakens much of his comparative analyworking, and his wish to contain and East Asian countries, hailed as "tigers" and sis...
...Governmental intrusion into the tion on industrial relations and on politiPUSH BACK THE NIGHT: lives of ordinary Singaporeans, for ex- cal changes in governments, he provides A Clergyman-Columnist's Views on ample, runs the gamut from a ban on hardly any analysis of how governmental the Relevance of Religion in the Nineties, by Milton H. Keene...
...speak, and "He died not of cancer exact- t is almost impossible to visit Galenson's explanation for this exclusion, ly, but of pneumonia, as if his lungs had downtown Singapore or Seoul or their "truncated economies," overlooks filled with trapped speech and he had Kuala Lumpur, as a tourist or as the regional and global economic reach of drowned in it...
...While sometimes proclaiming that Commonweal 15 January 1993: 25...
...In short, to use his own summary, these experiences the recognition decen- generally recognized in practice by inter- the five countries "are a long way from cy demands...
...In its own ments how the decline of the rule of law sis, a sharp internal contradiction, there- day, though, colonialism was exceedinghas had a corrosive effect in both Singapore fore, runs through East Asia's model of ly popular...
...He does not draw on human rights East Asian workplaces "union free," and their connections, which open up the lureports of the State Department or of or- seldom hesitate to call upon the interven- crative U.S...
...The New York City Bar international media...
...ers, who have entered the East Asian labor sient foreigners than it does on most of a So he ignores an overarching element in force in ever increasing numbers, is no se- country's lifelong citizens...
...The sophomoric writer of "What the Cystoscope Said," published in 1954, THE PRICE OF 'ECONOMIC MIRACLES' hasn't matured in the later writings that make up the rest of Intoxicated by My Illness...
...that environment: the lack of respect for cret but has yet to be fully exposed in the An earlier model of development bore the rule of law...
...pecially for women, and through modestly things...
...In 1973 the The Convent of the Visitation School is an independent Catholic day Malaysian government, ignoring its own school for boys and girls from Montessori preschool and kindergarten laws on the right to unionize, invited elec- through Grade 6. The school is college preparatory for young women tronics multinationals into Malaysia with grades 7-12...
Vol. 120 • January 1993 • No. 1
