homogeneity - was Re: Comparing...

[Rakesh Bhandari]

To what extent can the  industrialisation of the NICS be understood as a
consequence of Japan's emphasis on its perceived racial purity?
As Sukhamoy Chakravarty muses:
"Korea launched a strategy of export oriented industrialization from the
mid-sixties onwards, when Japan had crossed the so called Lewis turning
point in her economic development, making it necessary to obtain new
sources of cheap labour. Given the character of Japanese society and its
emphasis on racial purity, it was a much better option to forge new
economic links with the Republic of Korea through subcontracting, etc.,
than to encourage large scale labour immigration. This strategy also
enabled the Korean economy to maintain a regime of excess demand, which
could be met by an *import surplus*, which has persisted since the
beginning of the sixties."
Selected Economic Writings, p. 150

At any rate, this does raise the question not only of the reasons for
different immigration policies within the OECD but also the consequences
these varying policies have had on capitalist dynamics.

yours, rakesh