Not a Peasant Movement: The Livelihood Struggles of the Taiwanese Labouring Population under the Broken Promise of High-tech Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 243 ◽  
pp. 801-822
Author(s):  
You-Lin Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Market Reform ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Popular Opinion ◽  
New Science ◽  
Employment Insecurity ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Peasant Movement

AbstractIn contrast to popular opinion, this paper suggests that recent protests against the Taiwanese government's expropriation of farmland for high-tech development in Taiwan do not constitute a peasant movement. Based on Karl Polanyi's double-movement thesis and Ching Kwan Lee's analysis of workers’ uprisings in the context of market reform, this paper shows that the local cause of such a mobilization is the labouring population's struggle to maintain a livelihood against increasing economic and employment insecurity. Moreover, the intensification of market despotism, economic insecurity and the relocation of firms to China have broken the various promises offered by high-tech development. As a result, local protestors have begun to question the necessity of expropriating farmland to make way for the construction of new science industrial parks.

Study on Factors Analysis Low-Carbon Development in Hi-Tech Industrial Park − A Case Study in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 3149-3153
Author(s):  
Juan Wen ◽  
Wen Tao Chang ◽  
Peng Fei Shi ◽  
Tao Sun
Keyword(s):  
High Tech ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Logarithmic Mean ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Strategic Option ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Index Analysis ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Low Carbon Development

Low-carbon development has been well recognized as a strategic option for the transformation during the socio-economic development in China. As a symbol of highest level of research and development, high-tech eco-industrial parks are playing an important role in response to climate change and the trend of low-carbon development, to maximize the low-carbon development potentials and bridge a unique and feasible solution to low-carbon development. This paper explored the factors affecting the development of high-tech eco-industrial parks using Logarithmic Mean Weight Division Index (LMDI)index analysis and Kaya equation, and summarized these factors as economic growth, industrial structures, energy efficiency, energy structures and carbon emission coefficients.

scholarly journals The Main Modernization Directions of the Industrial Complex

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 03004
Author(s):  
N.N. Belanova ◽  
A.D. Kornilova ◽  
V.V. Mantulenko ◽  
A.V. Mantulenko
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Environment ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Innovation Infrastructure ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Investment In Fixed Assets

The functioning of enterprises in the conditions of economic uncertainty and high risks associated with it, dependence on external economic conjuncture, low competitiveness of domestic goods and services of Russia give determine a range of problems that can be solved only through modernization reforms in industry. They are determined by the formation of a competitive type of industrial production in Russia and high-tech industries that are able to generate high technology and modernize the sectoral system of national reproduction. Modernization of the Russian industry is based on internal growth factors using modern technologies and business methods with a gradual increase of the innovation potential. The purpose of the study is to identify the main directions of modernization for the formation of a modern competitive industry as the basis for ensuring economic growth and improving the quality of life of the population. To achieve this goal, the authors used dialectical, system-functional, economic-statistical, and formal-logical methods. In this contribution, the authors summarized the main directions of the implementation of industrial policy, presented statistical data on the creation of industrial parks. To strengthen the industrial potential of the Russian economy, it is necessary to provide conditions for the development of modern production, increasing production and energy efficiency, and increasing investment in fixed assets. The authors developed measures for the modernization of the industrial complex and predicted results of this program. Among key activities there are the development of affordable investment and innovation infrastructure, the creation of industrial parks and the development of the institutional environment.

Chinese Science and Technology Industrial Parks. By Susan M. Walcott. [Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2003. x+220pp. £55.00. ISBN 0-7546-0952-9.]

2004 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 514-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cong Cao
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Science And Technology Parks ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technology Parks

One of the institutional innovations in China's reform and open-door era is the establishment of economic and technological development zones, export processing zones, science and technology parks, and other “zones” or “parks” at geographically diverse regions. This book represents an effort to investigate some of the science and technology industrial parks (STIPs). For the geographer Walcott, such parks are oriented to multinational development, multinational learning, and local innovation learning, based on “the type of activity contained and the type of company profiled” (p. 13). In particular, she shows that multinational corporations (MNCs) have become the growth engines for China's leapfrog into the 21st century with their contributions to China's exports, high tech as well as low tech, and the creation of new jobs. Therefore, in cities like Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Suzhou, MNCs have mainly processed and assembled products using foreign-imported critical parts plus locally-made components with the help of cheap labor and easy access to major ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai. On the other hand, in Shanghai, the best example of a multinational learning zone capable of providing a wide range of skills, goods and services, MNCs are engaged in manufacturing activities in proximity to Chinese firms, research and development entities, both within and outside designated STIPs. Finally, Beijing, Shenzhen (again), and Xi'an, according to Walcott, have represented another model where the proximity of domestic firms to institutions of learning has facilitated knowledge transfer.

scholarly journals Employment and Economic Insecurity: A Commonsian Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Morel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Mainstream Economics ◽  
Employment Insecurity ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

The principal concern of this paper is with the need of a theoretical shift in economics for analyzing and devising efficient and innovative policy reforms to combat employment insecurity. Mainstream economics is unable to provide appropriate theorizing about economic phenomena, including economic insecurity. Thus, we must turn to economic theories which radically question the dominant paradigm in economics. John Rogers Commons's institutionalist theory accomplishes that. First, the author of this paper outlines the distinctive character of this theory by presenting some of its crucial methodological differences with neoclassical economics. Second, she explains how economic insecurity is conceptualized as an "instituted" process with this theory of institution. A better mastery of this specific school of thought in economics appears to escape the problems met by mainstream economics by proposing a real theoretical alternative for the development of a truly evolutionary, trans-disciplinary and ethical economic theory.

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