GASD20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat
24 Sep 2013
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Contradictory literature: part-time proletariat, the workers tend to leave the factory and seek for other professions after they are married. However they still found a large number of married women in the satellite factories. From a few big land owners to a large number of small owners. Much larger labour force to engage in labour-intensive export-led growth. Also diminished the power of elite and landlord class and at the same time won support from the tenants and working class, which is a large chunk of the population. Export occupied 53% of gnp in 1980 as opposed to 9% in 1950. Taiwan"s economic transition: from agriculture to manufacturing, export-oriented nature of development, dual market structure: export market filled with small labour-intensive producers, whereas large corp. dominate the domestic market, decentralized industrialized/rural industrialization. In south korea, the number of factories < size vs. taiwan, # of factory > size.
