CAPS Professor Eli Friedman participated in a seminar at the National Taiwan University College of Social Science on September 22nd. The seminar posed the questions of: "In the face of regime repression, stagnant wages, workplace discrimination, the introduction of disruptive technologies, exploitative guest worker programs, etc., how can workers defend their rights and interests? How do labor movements in East Asia face increasingly diverse yet similar challenges?"
In order to promote innovative analysis of the labor movement centered on Asia and understand the flow of people, ideas, and strategies in the labor movement in Asia, the Abbey Center, Cornell University, and Asian Labor Review jointly organized the seminar. In addition to serious academic debates, scholars and practitioners with organizational experience, collective bargaining and strikes, and political strategies were invited to discuss the most pressing issues facing contemporary East Asian workers.
