The concepts and structures of corporatism have been used by the governments of many industrialising states to barness workers in the name of 'development'. One such state was Subarto's New Order Indonesia, where tbe translation of corporatist structures of industrial relations through discourse into practice underpinned the much- vaunted 'success' of Indonesia's development-driven economy. Now, as Indonesians struggle with the socio-economic and political cballenges that have accompanied the bursting of the development bubble, it is timely to reflect on the insights the Indonesian corporatist experiment provides into the operation of corporatism in an industrialising economy.
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