Globalization Flexibilization And Working Conditions In Asia And The Pacific

Author : Sangheon Lee,Francois Eyraud
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780632476

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Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific by Sangheon Lee,Francois Eyraud Pdf

This book represents a unique study which reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and increasing pressure towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the diverging experiences of individual workers in their employment conditions such as employment status, wages/incomes, working time, work organizations and health and safety. Along with thematic studies concerning the roles of workers voice and labour regulation in determining employment conditions, this book includes nine country studies which have been undertaken based on a common research framework for a more rigorous comparison in the region. A systematic review of employment conditions in the countries which are carefully selected in the region National-level analysis based on a common research framework A highly analytical and timely analysis of workers voice and labour regulation with respect to employment conditions

Author : Sangheon Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380574045

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Globalization, Flexibilization And Working Conditions In Asia And The Pacific by Sangheon Lee Pdf

Author : John Benson,Chris Rowley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135304850

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Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific by John Benson,Chris Rowley Pdf

Globalization and labour market deregulation have had an impact on employment and workers, and brought pressure to bear on trade unions. This study looks at the challenges of globalization and deregulation in the Asia Pacific, and possible responses to them in a variety of ways.

Author : Yaw A. Debrah,Ian G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135311223

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Work and Employment in a Globalized Era by Yaw A. Debrah,Ian G. Smith Pdf

Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and individual employees as a result of globalization and the intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.

Author : Asia-Pacific Research Network. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Employee rights
ISBN : UOM:39015074225288

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Jobs & Justice by Asia-Pacific Research Network. Conference Pdf

Author : Fang Lee Cooke,Sunghoon Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317422839

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Routledge Handbook of Human Resource Management in Asia by Fang Lee Cooke,Sunghoon Kim Pdf

Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally shaped by institutional and cultural factors, such as the different political environments and social philosophies of particular countries and regions. By examining the various organizational aspects of business life and systems of people management in Asia, the study of HRM across the continent can, therefore, give us a greater understanding of Asian societies, as well as the contemporary world of work more generally. This handbook provides an up-to-date and intellectually engaging overview of HRM in the Asian context. Distinctive in its comprehensive coverage of traditional as well as emerging topics of HRM, it analyzes important themes, such as the regulatory framework for work and employment, religiosity, family business, and gender. Using a comparative approach, it also effectively highlights the unique features of each country’s attitudes towards HRM. Covering a range of themes and case studies, sections include: • Institutional and cultural contexts, • Labour regulation and industrial relations, • Thematic and functional HRM, • HRM in selected Asian countries, such as China, Japan, Vietnam, India, and Singapore. Written in a highly accessible style, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Human Resource Management, Asian Business, Economics, and Sociology. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Maarten van Klaveren,Denis Gregory,Thorsten Schulten
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137512420

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Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe by Maarten van Klaveren,Denis Gregory,Thorsten Schulten Pdf

This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight on Asia and eight on Europe, focus in particular on the role and effectiveness of minimum wages in the context of national trends in income inequality, economic development, and social security.

Author : Andrew Walter,Xiaoke Zhang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199643097

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East Asian Capitalism by Andrew Walter,Xiaoke Zhang Pdf

This volume analyses developments in East Asian capitalism since the 1980s, focussing on three main areas: business systems, financial structures, and labour markets.

Author : Vicki Crinis,Adrian Vickers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317297673

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Labour in the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific by Vicki Crinis,Adrian Vickers Pdf

The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns. Contributors further examine the role of the nation state, government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring systems such as the International Labour Organization. Although there has been considerable effort directed to understanding how firms operate across multiple countries – in studies of the organization of global production networks, and the implications for complexities of scale, (de)territorialization and state development projects – there has been far less focus on how these processes produce precarious labour and reshape worker consciousness. Offering new insights into the understanding and support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this book will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development, human rights, labour and gender.

Author : Frederic C. Deyo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801463945

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Reforming Asian Labor Systems by Frederic C. Deyo Pdf

In Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s market-oriented economic reform for labor systems in China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Adopting a critical institutionalist perspective, he explores the impact of elite economic interests and strategies, labor politics, institutional path dependencies, and changing economic circumstances on regimes of labor and social regulation in these four countries. Of particular importance are reform-driven socioeconomic and political tensions that, especially following the regional financial crisis of the late 1990s, have encouraged increased efforts to integrate social and developmental agendas with those of market reform. Through his analysis of the social economy of East and Southeast Asia, Deyo suggests that several Asian countries may now be positioned to repeat what they achieved in earlier decades: a prominent role in defining new international models of development and market reform that adapt to the pressures and constraints of the evolving world economy.

Author : Susan Hayter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849809832

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The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy by Susan Hayter Pdf

The book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today.s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labourstandards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positivecontribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerouschallenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity and working time.

Author : Sean Cooney,Sarah Biddulph,Ying Zhu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135101725

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Law and Fair Work in China by Sean Cooney,Sarah Biddulph,Ying Zhu Pdf

China’s economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working conditions, many of them violent, and the Chinese state has responded with both legal and political strategies. This book investigates how Chinese governments have used law, and other forms of regulation, to govern working conditions and combat labour disputes. Starting from the early years of the Republican period, the book traces the evolution of the law of work in modern China right up to the reforms of the present day. It considers the structure of Chinese work law, drawing on both Chinese and Western scholarship to provide new insights into its unique features and assess where the law is innovative and where it is stagnant and unresponsive. The authors explore the various legal and extra-legal techniques successive Chinese governments have adopted to enforce work law and the responses of firms, workers and organizations to these practices.

Author : Richard Whitley,Xiaoke Zhang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191045356

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Changing Asian Business Systems by Richard Whitley,Xiaoke Zhang Pdf

This book brings together scholars from different disciplines to examine the evolving patterns of economic organisation across Northeast and Southeast Asia against the backdrop of market liberalisation, political changes and periodic economic crises since the 1990s. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary account of variations, continuities and changes in the institutional structures that shape business systems and practices and govern innovation patterns, together with analyses of their impact on established systems of economic coordination and control. In line with this analytical focus, the project has three different yet interrelated objectives. In the first place, building on the comparative business systems framework, it elucidates the nature and properties of business system changes and continuities in Asia since the 1990s. Second, it develops novel theoretical propositions concerning the primary causes of these changes and continuities, representing a collective effort to theorise the changing varieties of Asian economic organisation. Finally, it explores the causal pathways through which the changing institutional structures governing business systems have shaped and reshaped innovation strategies and trajectories across the national, sectoral and firm levels of analysis.

Author : John Burgess,Julia Connell
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781780632445

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Globalisation and Work in Asia by John Burgess,Julia Connell Pdf

This book reviews employment conditions in Asian countries. This is the hub of the strongest growth area in the world economy and while attention has focussed on job growth and industrial transformation, there has been very little attention on employment characteristics and employment conditions. In particular, the book addresses the issue of whether globalisation, taken to mean the growing international integration of economies, is a factor that leads to a convergence of employment conditions, and more importantly, an improvement in employment conditions. The book brings together contributions on many Asian economies where these core questions are considered at both the macro level and for specified industries. Addresses fundamental questions regarding growth, globalisation and working conditions Includes analysis of West, East and North Asian countries Includes an overview chapter from researchers from the ILO

Author : Leah F. Vosko,Martha MacDonald,Iain Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135284718

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Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment by Leah F. Vosko,Martha MacDonald,Iain Campbell Pdf

Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship. This collection aims to yield new ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity.