Organized Labor In Southeast Asia

Author : Teri L. Caraway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108585521

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Organized Labor in Southeast Asia by Teri L. Caraway Pdf

This Element analyzes the economic and political forces behind the political marginalization of working-class organizations in the region. It traces the roots of labor exclusion to the geopolitics of the early postwar period when many governments rolled back the left and established labor control regimes that prevented the reemergence of working-class movements. This Element also examines the economic and political dynamics that perpetuated labor's containment in some countries and that produced a resurgence of labor mobilization in others in the 21st century. It also explains why democratization has had mixed effects on organized labor in the region and analyzes three distinctive “anatomies of contention” of Southeast Asia's feistiest labor movements in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Author : Stephen Frenkel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : UCAL:B4373741

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Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region by Stephen Frenkel Pdf

Author : Byoung-Hoon Lee,Ng Sek-Hong,Russell D. Lansbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429576089

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Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region by Byoung-Hoon Lee,Ng Sek-Hong,Russell D. Lansbury Pdf

Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation. However, this process is not universal, including in some countries of Asia, where trade unions are closely aligned with the interests of the dominant political party and the state. This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country, full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen. Key questions then considered include the challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in each country, the extent to which these are a result of global or local developments and the actions being taken by trade unions and worker representative bodies to cope with the challenges. This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Keith Thurley, London School of Economics.

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134366835

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Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand by Andrew Brown Pdf

In this book Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Critically examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of 'class factors' he aims to bring workers back from the margins, demonstrating that both in the present and past the state has been entangled in processes that determine the forms of their struggles. This book presents new empirical data, important historical material and an innovative approach to workers and politics.

Author : Becky Elmhirst,Ratna Saptari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135791377

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Labour in Southeast Asia by Becky Elmhirst,Ratna Saptari Pdf

In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks, and contrasting labour regimes, histories and cultures. The contributions show the importance of critically examining both the complex nature of global-local links and the particular ways economic processes are refracted through culture and locality in southeast Asia. Clustered around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning."--Jacket

Author : Kaye Broadbent,Michele Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134125272

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Women and Labour Organizing in Asia by Kaye Broadbent,Michele Ford Pdf

Providing a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, this book successfully challenges the prevailing conception of women workers in Asia as passive and uninterested in industrial issues.

Author : John Ingleson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004264762

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Workers, Unions and Politics by John Ingleson Pdf

In Workers, Unions and Politics. Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s, John Ingleson revises received understandings of the decade and a half between the failed communist uprisings of 1926/1927 and the Japanese occupation in 1942. They were important years for the labour movement. It had to recover from the crackdown by the colonial state and then cope with the impact of the 1930s depression. Labour unions were voices for greater social justice, for stronger legal protection and for improved opportunities for workers. They created a discourse of social rights and wage justice. They were major contributors to the growth of a stronger civil society. The experiences and remembered histories of these years helped shape the agendas of post-independence labour unions.

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501735158

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From Migrant to Worker by Michele Ford Pdf

What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries—Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand—where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries—Japan and Taiwan, for example—where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act.

Author : A. Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230511132

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Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840 by A. Kaur Pdf

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labour systems. There are five main themes - labour processes, migration and labour systems; labour circulation or mobility; the gendered nature of labour relations; and, class consciousness, worker organization and labour standards. A wide-ranging study which will be of great interest to historians, economists and Asia specialists.

Author : Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Labor unions and communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111552506

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Target by Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Pdf

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Labor economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4373740

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Labour and Unions in Asia and Africa by Roger Southall Pdf

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Author : Elisabetta Gentile
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788116176

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Skilled Labor Mobility and Migration by Elisabetta Gentile Pdf

One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual policy simulations. Finally, it discusses existing issues and obstacles through case studies, as well as other sectoral examples.

Author : Michele Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036402998

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Workers and Intellectuals by Michele Ford Pdf

In the 1990s, Indonesia’s independent labor movement re-emerged after decades of repression. The revival was led by students and NGO activists, who organized industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Workers and Intellectuals explores how these middle-class activists struggled to define their place in a labor movement shaped by a history of fierce debate about the role of nonworker intellectuals. Drawing on extensive interviews, Michele Ford documents the contribution made by NGOs and student groups to the resurgence of labor activism, explaining how activists and workers perceived their roles and how the situation evolved in the decade after Suharto’s authoritarian regime crumbled in 1998. This fine-grained study of labor organization in a developing country will appeal to scholars of labor history, politics, and sociology, as well as Indonesia specialists.

Author : John Ingleson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038187907

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In Search of Justice by John Ingleson Pdf

Beginning with the struggles to create the first labor unions in 1910 and ending with the colonial government's suppression of union activities after the Surabaya strikes in late 1925, the author examines the experiences of the early generations of urbanized workers in Indonesia. He draws heavily on archives and newspapers in both Indonesia and the Netherlands to present the first in-depth look at the hopes and expectations of urban workers during the turbulent years of labor militancy and union organization.

Author : Caroline Brassard,Sarthi Acharya
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 817188539X

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Labour Market Regulation and Deregulation in Asia by Caroline Brassard,Sarthi Acharya Pdf

Papers presented at the Conference on Regulation, Deregulation and Reregulation, held at Singapore during 22-24 March 2004.