| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on the balance between economic development and political stability in governance. The writers examine the experience of market-oriented economic reform and restructuring in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on the diverse experiences and social tensions associated with labor reform in Thailand, China, and South Korea since the 1980s. They contend that reform in these countries has increasingly encountered its own political and social limits as demonstrated in a redirection and slowing of market reform along with renewed attempts to protect society from its destabilizing effects. They focus on critical reports relating largely to negative social outcomes and the ensuing political opposition and revised reform programs to locate the points of institutional tensions that have forced these redirected reform agendas and to investigate how those tensions have been dealt with through policy shifts at global, national, and enterprise levels.
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