The Political Economy of Social Control in SingaporeMacmillan, 1994 - 252 pagine "Singapore's rapid economic growth has attracted much admiration. But can this success be sufficiently explained by canny exploitation of a niche in the global free market? This book shows that there is a complex relationship between economic strategy, social control and political conflict in Singapore. It does this by looking at the regulatory functions of major state institutions." "Public housing increases state control and forces people into wage labour even while supplying a high standard of accommodation. Singaporeans are sorted, stratified and fragmented by the education system. Racism and patriarchal relations, seen in language, population planning and eugenics policies, are integral to education. Elections and parliament in Singapore are mechanisms for forcing submission, converting submission into consent and confining politics to parliamentary politics. The legal system functions to criminalise politics and politicise crime. The findings of all the chapters are drawn together to show how the system of social control has developed in phases in response to the changing nature of political resistance."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Pagina 38
... role in global production in the medium term . POST - 1986 : MAXIMISING SINGAPORE'S REGIONAL ROLE After 1985 Singapore had to fall back to low - wage export production . It restored Singapore's international competitiveness through such ...
... role in global production in the medium term . POST - 1986 : MAXIMISING SINGAPORE'S REGIONAL ROLE After 1985 Singapore had to fall back to low - wage export production . It restored Singapore's international competitiveness through such ...
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... role . This quickly became a major objective . Lee Kuan Yew noted this role in a speech to the French National Employers ' Federation in Paris : [ Prime Minister Lee ] said that Singapore was fortunate to have made the right economic ...
... role . This quickly became a major objective . Lee Kuan Yew noted this role in a speech to the French National Employers ' Federation in Paris : [ Prime Minister Lee ] said that Singapore was fortunate to have made the right economic ...
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... role of acting as a regional centre for finance capital is now a familiar characteristic of the new ' multipolar ... role naturally involved greater attention to its services sector . Because of its entrepot role in commodity trading ...
... role of acting as a regional centre for finance capital is now a familiar characteristic of the new ' multipolar ... role naturally involved greater attention to its services sector . Because of its entrepot role in commodity trading ...
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Singapores Political Economy 339 | 30 |
The Workingclass Barracks | 45 |
Educating for Submission | 74 |
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