Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-1960. (4th July 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-1960. (4th July 2021)
- Main Title:
- Conflict and conciliation: industrial relations in an industrialising Hong Kong, ca. 1946-1960
- Authors:
- Clayton, David
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This article focuses on a long-standing riddle: what explains the quiescence of Hong Kong workers? Building on a literature written by social historians, industrial relations experts and social scientists, and using qualitative and quantitative data created by governments, the article discusses the effects of the de-radicalization of the working class; acute macroeconomic instability; 'paternalistic' and discriminatory labour management strategies; and interventions by the colonial state in industrial relations – most notably voluntary conciliation. The article argues that Hong Kong's dominant decentralised system of industrial relations was supported by a conciliation-based approach nurtured by the Labour Department of the colonial administration. It also notes similarities between Hong Kong's conciliation-based approach and that which emerged in 1940s Britain. New evidence on the effectiveness of conciliation qualifies the hitherto dominant thesis that British colonial administrations in Asia repressed labor activism.
- Is Part Of:
- Labor history. Volume 62:Number 4(2021)
- Journal:
- Labor history
- Issue:
- Volume 62:Number 4(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 62, Issue 4 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0062-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 470
- Page End:
- 488
- Publication Date:
- 2021-07-04
- Subjects:
- Trade unions -- collective bargaining -- voluntary conciliation
Labor -- United States -- History -- Periodicals
Labor movement -- United States -- Periodicals
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- Periodicals
Travail -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Périodiques
Mouvement ouvrier -- États-Unis -- Périodiques
Syndicats -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Périodiques
331.0973 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/clah20#.VrC_h1Lcuic ↗
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=e1a15129576448d89193716007272a65&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 1, 1;homemain, 1, 1; ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/0023656X.2021.1934424 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0023-656X
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- Legaldeposit
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