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five Korean Management in a Chinese Workshop: Economic Globalization and the Changing Factory Regime
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THE NEW PLANT MANAGER FROM GUATEMALA AND A “HIGHER LEVEL OF GLOBALIZATION” THE NEW PLANT MANAGER FROM GUATEMALA AND A “HIGHER LEVEL OF GLOBALIZATION”
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INCREASING TENSION ON THE SHOP FLOOR INCREASING TENSION ON THE SHOP FLOOR
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“Global” management and workers’ growing discontent “Global” management and workers’ growing discontent
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Mounting tension between two Korean managers Mounting tension between two Korean managers
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TOWARD A STRIKE TOWARD A STRIKE
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The Han-Chinese workers’ nostalgic memory of the former management The Han-Chinese workers’ nostalgic memory of the former management
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A (pro-management) strike A (pro-management) strike
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ULTIMATE LOCALIZATION OF A FOREIGN MANAGEMENT? ULTIMATE LOCALIZATION OF A FOREIGN MANAGEMENT?
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CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF GLOBALIZATION
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seven Clash of the Global and the Local
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Published:April 2013
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Abstract
Chapter Seven analyzes the limits of globalization by describing new developments on the shop floor such as a new plant manager from a Guatemalan maquila factory and an unprecedented workers’ strike. After the collision with the local power holders, management realized it could no longer rely on their unofficial support. Instead, management chose to push forward a “higher level of globalization” to restore shop-floor control. As part of its new managerial push, management decided to hire the new plant manager, expecting he would introduce managerial practices “more global” than those of Nawon. The “global standards” of the new management reinforced labor supervision and increased the intensity of labor. These changes, however, triggered a Han-Chinese workers’ strike, leading to the new plant manager’s resignation. The strike resulted from the “global” management’s ignorance of the workers’ expectation of “decent” wages and the previous management’s paternalist attitude toward the workers.
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