HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Free Trade, State Socialism, Sweatshop
13 Nov 2020
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Japan: (wwii 1950"s: heavy manufacturing and large corporations. Within 20 years: industrial transition to an urbanized work force with a preponderance of labor in the high-productivity sectors of manufacturing and services, demografic transition to society with low death and birth rates, educational transition. Acute insecurity --> political structures restricting civil liberty and social well-being for the sake of economic growth. Initial success: catch-up growth, favorable demography, export-led policies, controlled political structures. Afterwards, as in japan: raising protest against results of rapid growth, little welfare and lack of liberty (education raises etc. ) Korea: political stability by military rule (military rule justified by hostile neigbour, forced industrialization (japan as model, powerful state bodies, family-run chaebol, patronage washington/tokyo: exporting and economic aid us, importing and soft loans. Japan: secure jobs, rising wages (no welfare, persistent trade deficit (exports to live, but lives on imports)
