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Labour in Southeast Asia local processes in a globalised world edited by Rebecca Elmhirst and Ratna Saptari.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Changing labour relations in AsiaPublication details: London New York RoutledgeCurzon 2004.Description: 412 pages 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415405998
  • 9780700714209 (hbk
  • 9780415405997 (pbk
  • 0700714200 (hardback
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.0959 ELM
Contents:
Studying labour in Southeast Asia /​ Ratna Saptari and Rebecca Elmhirst Labour dynamics in the plantation and mining sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840-1950 /​ Amarjit Kaur Constructing child labour /​ Benjamin White Trade unions in Vietnam in historical perspective /​ Irene Nørlund Local politics and labour relations in the Philippines /​ Chan Fong Yin and Philip F. Kelly Are they incompatible? Modern farming and non-market labour in the northern Philippine uplands /​ Edsel E. Sajor From resource managers to secondary farm hands /​ Bernadette P. Resurrección Labour practices outside the factory /​ Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander Transforming industrial relations /​ Peter Wad Labour relations and mobility in provincial Thailand /​ Daniel Arghiros Labour relations in a changing rural world /​ Jonathan Rigg Labour restructuring in Vietnam since the economic reform /​ Xavier Oudin Domestic workers and transnational migration /​ Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Richard T. Jackson Labouring communities /​ Erwiza Erman Labour politics in migrant communities /​ Rebecca Elmhirst.
Summary: "Given the transformations taking place in many parts of Southeast Asia, the question of labour remains as pertinent today as it ever has been. Labour 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 aiming to understand the multiple and specific dimensions of labour in this region, this book offers a collection of empirical studies across a range of time-frames (colonial and contemporary), economic sectors, labour 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 labour 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 refracted through culture and locality in southeast Asia. Clustered around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 405-406.

Studying labour in Southeast Asia /​ Ratna Saptari and Rebecca Elmhirst Labour dynamics in the plantation and mining sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840-1950 /​ Amarjit Kaur Constructing child labour /​ Benjamin White Trade unions in Vietnam in historical perspective /​ Irene Nørlund Local politics and labour relations in the Philippines /​ Chan Fong Yin and Philip F. Kelly Are they incompatible? Modern farming and non-market labour in the northern Philippine uplands /​ Edsel E. Sajor From resource managers to secondary farm hands /​ Bernadette P. Resurrección Labour practices outside the factory /​ Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander Transforming industrial relations /​ Peter Wad Labour relations and mobility in provincial Thailand /​ Daniel Arghiros Labour relations in a changing rural world /​ Jonathan Rigg Labour restructuring in Vietnam since the economic reform /​ Xavier Oudin Domestic workers and transnational migration /​ Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Richard T. Jackson Labouring communities /​ Erwiza Erman Labour politics in migrant communities /​ Rebecca Elmhirst.

"Given the transformations taking place in many parts of Southeast Asia, the question of labour remains as pertinent today as it ever has been. Labour 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 aiming to understand the multiple and specific dimensions of labour in this region, this book offers a collection of empirical studies across a range of time-frames (colonial and contemporary), economic sectors, labour 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 labour 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 refracted through culture and locality in southeast Asia. Clustered around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning."--BOOK JACKET.

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