2004 Holland Prize

The Impact of the State on Workers’ Conditions – Comparing Taiwanese Factories in China and Vietnam

Anita Chan
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Hong-zen Wang
National Sun Yat-sen University, Gushan, Taiwan

Volume 77 No. 4, Winter 2004-2005, pp. 629-646

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Anita Chan

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Hong-zen Wang

Chan and Wang’s study applies field research and social science analysis to a pressing contemporary problem in the Asia Pacific: direct foreign investment and the treatment of workers in foreign factories. Their case study comparing experience in Vietnam and China will have value for those concerned with similar issues across the region.