Organising Labour in Globalising AsiaJane Hutchison, Andrew Brown 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. |
Contents
An introduction | 1 |
2 The rise of the Bangladesh Independent GarmentWorkers Union BIGU | 28 |
3 Assembling class in a Chinese joint venture factory | 50 |
Unions in the Philippine garments industry | 74 |
5 Labour and work organisation in Malaysias Proton | 93 |
Origins and prospects | 111 |
Labour organising for health and safety standards in Thailand | 131 |
8 Labour and the remaking of Bombay | 152 |
Workers interventions in the privatisation of Indian telecommunications | 173 |
The case of Filipino migrant workers | 192 |
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