Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0511004699
9780511004698
0521621445
9780521621441
9780521628839
0521628830
0511583435
9780511583438
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-303) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Anthony Woodiwiss's pathbreaking book was the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights. In it, he takes up the question of whether so-called Asian values are compatible with human rights discourse and argues against human rights issues being the major obstacle to East-West co-operation. Dr Woodiwiss's sociological and post-structuralist approach to the concept of rights, and his incorporation of the transnational dimension into sociological theory, enable him to demonstrate how the global human rights regime can accommodate Asian patriarchalism, while Pacific Asia is itself adapting by means of what he calls 'enforceable benevolence'. His studies of Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore highlight similarities between Pacific-Asian and Western societies and offer a positive view of the social forces obtaining in these territories.
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| Other form: | Print version: Woodiwiss, Anthony. Globalisation, human rights, and labour law in Pacific Asia. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521621445
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