Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalised World

by Elmhirst,Becky; Elmhirst,Becky

• ISBN13: 9780700714209
• ISBN10: 0700714200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-02
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

Given the transformations taking place in many parts of Southeast Asia, the question of labor remains as pertinent today as it ever has been. Labor issues are central to the social tensions marking the transformations taking place in both rural and urban areas, and underscore the myriad ways people have responded to economic and political crisis. In seeking to understand the multiple and specific dimensions of labor across a range of time-frames (colonial and contemporary), economic sectors, labor processes and community contexts. 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 labor 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 around the themes of labor regimes, labor processes, labor mobility and labor communities, the essaysshow how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(9)
List of Tables and Figures	9	(2)
Contributors	11	(4)
Studying Labour in Southeast Asia: Reflections on Structures and Processes	15	(32)
Ratna Saptari
Rebecca Elmhirst
Part I The Regulation of Labour and Labour Regimes
Labour Dynamics in the Plantation and Mining Sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840--1950: A Historical Perspective	47	(30)
Amarjit Kaur
Constructing Child Labour: Attitudes to Juvenile Work in Indonesia, 1900--2000	77	(30)
Benjamin White
Trade Unions in Vietnam in Historical Perspective: The Transformation of Concepts	107	(22)
Irene Nørlund
Local Politics and Labour Relations in the Philippines: The Case of Subic Bay	129	(28)
Chan Fong Yin
Philip F. Kelly
Part II Labour Processes: Old Forms, New Meanings
Are They Incompatible? Modern Farming and Non-Market Labour in the Northern Philippine Uplands	157	(30)
Edsel E. Sajor
From Resource Managers to Secondary Farm Hands: Changing Gender Divisions of Labour in a Philippine Upland Village	187	(28)
Bernadette P. Resurreccion
Labour Practices Outside the Factory: Modern Forms of Household Production in Java	215	(20)
Jennifer Alexander
Paul Alexander
Transforming Industrial Relations: the Case of the Malaysian Auto Industry	235	(30)
Peter Wad
Part III Labour Mobility and Work Transformations
Labour Relations and Mobility in Provincial Thailand	265	(22)
Daniel Arghiros
Labour Relations in a Changing Rural World: The Evolving Thai Experience	287	(24)
Jonathan Rigg
Labour Restructuring in Vietnam Since the Economic Reform	311	(18)
Xavier Oudin
Domestic Workers and Transnational Migration: Perspectives from the Philippines and Singapore	329	(30)
Shirlena Huang
Brenda S.A. Yeoh
Richard T. Jackson
Part IV Reproducing Workers: The Boundaries of Community
Labouring Communities: Women's Roles in the Ombilin Coal Mines of Sumatra (1892--1965)	359	(28)
Erwiza Erman
Labour Politics in Migrant Communities: Ethnicity and Women's Activism in Tangerang, Indonesia	387	(20)
Rebecca Elmhirst
Index	407