• Migrant Worker Organizing in Indonesia 

      Ford, Michele
      Published 2006-01-01
      This article examines attempts by Indonesian migrant labor NGOs, migrant worker organizations and trade unions to promote the labor rights of Indonesian migrant workers employed overseas. In recent years trade unions in ...
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    • The Making of Industrial Relations in Timor-Leste 

      Ford, Michele
      Published 2016-01-01
      As a new nation, Timor-Leste offers a unique case where formal industrial relations mechanisms have been developed as part of a broader project of state formation. In other words, the transformation of employment relations ...
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    • Migrant Labor NGOs and Trade Unions: A Partnership in Progress? 

      Ford, Michele
      Published 2006-01-01
      Over the last two decades, the needs and interests of temporary international labor migrants in Southeast Asia have overwhelmingly been the concern of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rather than trade unions. However, ...
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    • The State, Democratic Transition and Employment Relations in Indonesia 

      Ford, Michele; Sirait, George Martin
      Published 2016-01-01
      Indonesia’s transition since 1998 from authoritarian developmentalism to democracy has had a fundamental effect on employment relations. Although the basic structure of the economy has not changed, the twin processes of ...
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    • Learning by Doing: Trade Unions and Electoral Politics in Batam, Indonesia, 2004-2009 

      Ford, Michele
      Published 2014-01-01
      Academic studies of local politics in post-Suharto Indonesia focus on the emergence of coalitions between parties and candidates, arguing that the entrenched and dominant role of political elites has effectively excluded ...
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