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Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

By Anthony Woodiwiss

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780511583438, 9780521621441, 9780521628839
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511583438
Google Books ID
Mdg6J1rzc3gC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3996430 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Pages
329\329
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This pathbreaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse. Using a sociological and poststructuralist approach to the concept of rights, and incorporating transnationality into sociological theory, Anthony Woodiwiss demonstrates how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchialism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls "enforceable benevolence."

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