Globalisation, Human Rights and Labour Law in Pacific Asia

by Anthony Woodiwiss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521628830
• ISBN13: 9780521628839
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"