Organising Labour in Globalising Asia

Organising Labour in Globalising Asia
Author: Andrew Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134531893

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.

Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia

Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia
Author: Dev Nathan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2016
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9781316674635

""Brings together a set of studies of labour conditions in GVCs - in labour-intensive sectors, medium- and high-technology sectors and knowledge-intensive sectors"--Provided by publisher"--

Women and Labour Organizing in Asia

Women and Labour Organizing in Asia
Author: Kaye Broadbent
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-12-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134125275

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.

Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour

Globalisation,, Knowledge and Labour
Author: Mario Novelli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135202958

Knowledge is playing an important role in the development of contemporary capitalism. This book addresses the questions such as: how labour movements learn, and what strategies they deploy to defend their interests.

Women Workers in Industrialising Asia

Women Workers in Industrialising Asia
Author: A. Kaur
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230596703

This collection contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focussing on issues that have been little documented in other studies in the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour intensive export manufactures and state-labour relations in a comparative context. The contributors present a range of unique and varied perspectives from which they consider aspects of the increasing integration of Asian economies, exploring implications for their labour markets.

The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia

The New Political Economy of Southeast Asia
Author: Rajah Rasiah
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849807124

This well-researched book examines the dramatic transformation of Southeast Asian countries from agricultural and mining economies to industrial nations. In doing so, it explores the effects of development policy on a number of interdisciplinary issues, and the emergence of new social and political pressures created by industrialization. These include their heightened vulnerability to complex economic crises, their use of sophisticated instruments in the labour process and increased awareness of environmental issues. The distinguished authors present a regional and cross-border focus on transnational actors and institutions, and the policy issues and problems which have a wider impact on spatial configurations in the region. This insightful study will appeal to researchers, academics and policymakers working on the economics and development of Southeast Asia.

Reassessing the Employment Relationship

Reassessing the Employment Relationship
Author: Edmund Heery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230365957

Reassessing the Employment Relationship is an edited volume written by leading academics at Cardiff Business School. Reflecting on the employment relationship as one of the central institutions of advanced capitalist economies, it provides an extensive survey of the changing world of work. The book offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the contemporary workplace, and focuses on the key influences that are shaping the employment relationship - globalization, financialization, regulation and the search for ethical standards in human resource management. There is insightful and authoritative treatment of some of the main developments in the employment relationship, such as the rise of knowledge and customer service work, increasing income inequality, new forms of management control over work, the spread of non-union industrial relations and the rise to prominence of work-life integration. Reassessing the Employment Relationship provides a critical yet accessible look at the changing employment relationship, and is an indispensible aid to students studying Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Organizational Studies, and Business Ethics. PAUL BLYTON is Professor of Industrial Relations and Industrial Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. EDMUND HEERY is Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff University, UK. PETER TURNBULL is Professor of Human Resource Management and Labour Relations at Cardiff University, UK.

Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840

Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840
Author: A. Kaur
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2004-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230511139

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.

The Future of Organised Labour

The Future of Organised Labour
Author: Craig Phelan
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783039113590

"This book offers analysis of the causes and extent of the movement's current malaise from a variety of vantage points. It provides eight national and regional studies - China, Britain, France, the US, Eastern Europe, Brazil, Ghana and Cameroon - that detail problems face and the revitalisation strategies trade unions have pursued in response. It also offers fresh scholarly perspective on a host of pressing labour issues: the extent and impact of global corporate restructuring; the ongoing fight to achieve core labour standards; the enduring importance of gender and diversity; the fortunes of the international labour movement; the relationship between trade unions and NGOs; the intellectual response to organised labour's present predicament; and the role of labour in the global social justice movement." -- BACK COVER.

Renewing International Labour Studies

Renewing International Labour Studies
Author: Marcus Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317986121

This volume seeks to re-energise the paradigm of the New International Labour Studies by detailing how struggles over the construction, reproduction, utilisation and restructuring of labour forces are the contested social foundations upon which the global economy stands. Through a combination of theoretical works and a series of case studies, the volume highlights the cutting edge of international labour studies. Its expands on three pivotal areas of study within the discipline:1) the social construction of new labour forces across an expanding international division of labour; 2) the self-organising potential of workers, particularly within non-traditional sectors; and 3) the possibilities for transborder labour movements to help address the asymmetrical power relationships between globalised capital and localised labour. In addressing these themes, the volume helps explain not only how the contemporary international division of labour is produced and reproduced, but also the strengths and limits to current attempts to overcome its unequal and divisive nature. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.