Japanese trade unions are generally considered to be rather weak and their co-operative relationship with employers has been a major factor contributing to Japanese economic success. Paradoxically, Japanese labour law has hitherto been viewed as relatively pro-union.
Japanese trade unions are generally considered to be rather weak and their co-operative relationship with employers has been a major factor contributi...
Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work in classical social theory and combining it with ideas derived from Barrington Moore, Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, Woodiwiss poses and answers the questions:
How did human rights become entangled with power relations?
How might the nature of this entanglement be altered so that human rights better serve the global majority?
In answering these questions, he explains how and why rights discourse...
Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work ...
The distinction between understanding sight as a natural faculty - vision - and understanding it as an historical and social construct - visuality - has had significant impact in the visual arts. Not so in social theory where, notwithstanding the efforts of the classical theorists, the practical scientific necessity of privileging visuality over vision has been lost.
The Visual in Social Theory argues that, because of its uncritical use of terms like modernity, postmodernity, globalisation and the Third Way, contemporary social theory has become a participant in rather than a critic...
The distinction between understanding sight as a natural faculty - vision - and understanding it as an historical and social construct - visuality ...
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."
This pathbreaking book is the first substantive contribution to a sociology of human rights and takes up the question of whether so-called Asian value...
Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. The result is both a novel history of post-war America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form.
Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years. The result is both a novel history ...
