Labour in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: local processes in a globalised world
By: edited by Rebecca Elmhirst and Ratna Saptari.
Contributors: Elmhirst, Rebecca.; Saptari, Ratna.
Series: Changing labour relations in Asia
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
Subjects: Labor -- Asia, Southeastern.; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying labour in Southeast Asia / Ratna Saptari and Rebecca Elmhirst; title: Labour dynamics in the plantation and mining sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840-1950 / Amarjit Kaur; title: Constructing child labour / Benjamin White; title: Trade unions in Vietnam in historical perspective / Irene Nørlund; title: Local politics and labour relations in the Philippines / Chan Fong Yin and Philip F. Kelly; title: Are they incompatible? Modern farming and non-market labour in the northern Philippine uplands / Edsel E. Sajor; title: From resource managers to secondary farm hands / Bernadette P. Resurrección; title: Labour practices outside the factory / Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander; title: Transforming industrial relations / Peter Wad; title: Labour relations and mobility in provincial Thailand / Daniel Arghiros; title: Labour relations in a changing rural world / Jonathan Rigg; title: Labour restructuring in Vietnam since the economic reform / Xavier Oudin; title: Domestic workers and transnational migration / Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, and Richard T. Jackson; title: Labouring communities / Erwiza Erman; title: Labour politics in migrant communities / Rebecca Elmhirst.