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Precarious Asia assesses the role of global and domestic factors in
shaping precarious work and its outcomes in Japan, South Korea, and
Indonesia as they represent a range of Asian political democracies
and capitalist economies: Japan and South Korea are now developed
and mature economies, while Indonesia remains a lower-middle income
country. With their established backgrounds in Asian studies,
comparative political economy, social stratification and
inequality, and the sociology of work, the authors yield compelling
insights into the extent and consequences of precarious work,
examining the dynamics underlying its rise. By linking
macrostructural policies to both the mesostructure of labor
relations and the microstructure of outcomes experienced by
individual workers, they reveal the interplay of forces that
generate precarious work, and in doing so, synthesize historical
and institutional analyses with the political economy of capitalism
and class relations. This book reveals how precarious work
ultimately contributes to increasingly high levels of inequality
and condemns segments of the population to chronic poverty and many
more to livelihood and income vulnerability.
The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been
passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what
the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by
subaltern social sciences, their talking back, has become a
frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The
re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social
sciences towards a critique from Southern social sciences of
Western social sciences has somehow turned Southern as well as
Western social sciences into competing contributors to the same
globalising social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the
European approach to social sciences but about which social thought
from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a
part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European
social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One
might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything
wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for
that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European
social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss
these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream
critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new
arguments criticising social science theories that may be found as
often in the Western as in the Southern discourse.
This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization
of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together
contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges
existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how
they have been and are being constructed. Examining more closely
the notions of 'human rights' and 'individualization', this
much-needed volume offers new and alternative ideas on how to
transform the universalization of the Western model of science and
can serve as an eye-opener for all those interested in
non-hegemonic scientific discourse. This book is published within
the Series 'Beyond the Social Sciences'.
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