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How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (review)

trend of forming corporatist agreements with employers. Clearly, new labor institutions are required and while Rathke applauds various strategies, such as organizing ex-employees, living wage campaigns, and coalitions of interested parties, he reserves greatest hope for the formation of a Wal-Mart workers’ association based around human rights. These interventions certainly would make the issues visible to a wider constituency, but are they sufficient to change the dominant template of Wal-Mart, which has developed management strategies that are so destructive to collective organization? Researchers will be disappointed that there is little new research data to support the arguments made in the text, despite the effective use of secondary data. In addition there is very little insight into who is currently investing in Wal-Mart and how finance is shaping the corporation. There are a few references to the way Wal-Mart externalizes labor costs, but these are not followed through by any of the contributors. The same can be said for the scant treatment of consumer behavior and the co-production of the Wal-Mart shopping experience. Finally, a significant omission is the lack of comment about the environmental sustainability of the Wal-Mart business model. These four areas of finance, externalities, co-production, and sustainability are all suggestive of future research projects. My unreserved endorsement of this book, however, is based on what it does include and the way in which the whole work assists us to articulate a key question: How are we to regulate the spatial division of labor and capital, while simultaneously balancing the competing demands of consumers and workers for lower prices and higher wages, respectively?