Organising labour in globalising Asia

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The new rich in Asia series

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London : Routledge, 2001

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9780415250597

Subject Term:

Labor movement -- Asia

Globalization

Added Author:

Hutchison, Jane, 1954-

Brown, Andrew, 1953-

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This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organising capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case-studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organisations (NGOs) and more (dis)organised struggles. Countering the notion that globalisation holds entirely negative consequences for labour organisation, the authors reveal some of the openings for local activism which can arise from transnational production arrangements.
The volume covers the "second-tier" industrializers - China, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh. Interdisciplinary in nature, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, development studies and international labour studies.

Author Notes

Brown, Andrew; Hutchison, Jane

Jane Hutchison and Andrew BrownMarilyn RockSally SargesonJane HutchisonRajah RasiahVedi R. HadizAndrew BrownStephen SherlockPatricia CahillMichael Pinches

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xii
1 Organising labour in globalising Asia: An introduction	p. 1
2 The rise of the Bangladesh Independent Garment-Workers' Union (BIGU)	p. 27
3 Assembling class in a Chinese joint venture factory	p. 48
4 Export opportunities: Unions in the Philippine garments industry	p. 71
5 Labour and work organisation in Malaysia's Proton	p. 90
6 New organising vehicles in Indonesia: Origins and prospects	p. 108
7 After the Kader fire: Labour organising for health and safety standards in Thailand	p. 127
8 Labour and the remaking of Bombay	p. 147
9 Sangharsh: Worker's interventions in the privatisation of Indian telecommunications	p. 168
10 Class and national identity: The case of Filipino migrant workers	p. 187
Name index	p. 214
Subject index	p. 221

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