Kevin Gray is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. He is author of Korean Workers and Neoliberal Globalization, and co-editor of "Rising Powers and the Future of Global Governance" (with Craig N. Murphy), and "People Power in an Era of Global Crisis" (with Barry Gills).

This book is an exploration of the formation of East Asian regional political economy via the interrelationship of labour and world politics.

Chapter 1. Labour, Development, and Passive Revolution, Chapter 2. Organised Labour and Japan's Passive Revolution, Chapter 3. Labour on the Front Line in Korea and Taiwan, Chapter 4. Labour and Democratisation in East Asia, Chapter 5. Neoliberalism, and the Reformulation of East Asia's Passive Revolution, Chapter 6. Chinese Workers' Challenge to Labour Subordination