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9780415250597

Organising Labour in Globalising Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415250597

  • ISBN10:

    0415250595

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-05-04
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book offers wide-ranging insights into the organizing capacities of workers in Asia today. Nine case studies examine workers' responses to class relations through independent unions, non-government organizations (NGOs) and more (dis)organized struggles.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements xii
Organising labour in globalising Asia: An introduction
1(26)
Jane Hutchison
Andrew Brown
The rise of the Bangladesh Independent Garment-Workers' Union (BIGU)
27(21)
Marilyn Rock
Assembling class in a Chinese joint venture factory
48(23)
Sally Sargeson
Export opportunities: Unions in the Philippine garments industry
71(19)
Jane Hutchison
Labour and work organisation in Malaysia's Proton
90(18)
Rajah Rasiah
New organising vehicles in Indonesia: Origins and prospects
108(19)
Vedi R. Hadiz
After the Kader fire: Labour organising for health and safety standards in Thailand
127(20)
Andrew Brown
Labour and the remaking of Bombay
147(21)
Stephen Sherlock
Sangharsh: Worker's interventions in the privatisation of Indian telecommunications
168(19)
Patricial Cahill
Class and national identity: The case of Filipino migrant workers
187(27)
Michael Pinches
Name index 214(7)
Subject index 221

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