Boss Island

The Subcontracting Network and Micro-Entrepreneurship in Taiwan's Development

G.S Shieh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

247 Seiten

1993
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-1839-1 (ISBN)

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Challenging the state-centered approach to the East Asian development, this book enters into the hidden abode of production of Taiwan's 'miracle' by analyzing its organization of production. The widespread subcontracting network, which penetrates and links numerous tiny units of production, has sustained the export-oriented industrialization in Taiwan during the past tree decades. Through management of inter-unit relationships and intra-unit adjustments, it generates flexibility and extra production capacity. This process creates opportunities for workers to set up their own workshops, which induces them to identify themselves with the existing arrangement. Paricipant observation, intensive interviews as well as official statistics and documents are employed in this book.

The Author: Born in Taiwan, G. S. Shieh received his B.A. from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei. He also teaches at the Graduate Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, National Tsing-hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan.

Contents: The book deals with the subcontracting system in Taiwan and the effects that it has brought about for the export-oriented industrialization in the past three decades. Its whole organization, the dynamics of the contracting unit, the subcontracted workshop, and the subcontracting point, as well as the becoming of one's own boss are examined.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.1993
Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 60
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	0-8204-1839-0 / 0820418390
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-1839-1 / 9780820418391
Zustand	Neuware