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Developing a Movement? Aid-Based Mediated Diffusion as a Strategy to Promote Labour Activism in post-Tsunami Aceh
Published 2011-01-01In this article we examine the extent to which mediated diffusion through trade union development aid succeeded in helping to establish a labour movement in Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. The international labour movement ...Open AccessArticle -
Emerging Labour Movements and the Accountability Dilemma: The Case of Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This chapter begins by examining the arguments most often made about the differences between labor unions and labor NGOs and the effects those differences have on the nature and extent of their accountability to workers. ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employer Anti-Unionism in Democratic Indonesia
Published 2013-01-01Based on data collected from interviews conducted at regular intervals between 1999 and 2012, union surveys and reports and secondary sources, this chapter explores the different kinds of anti-union strategies used by ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Employment Relations and the State in Southeast Asia
Published 2016-01-01This article engages critically with the comparative employment relations literature, assessing its capacity to explain and analyse the relationship between state objectives – accumulation, pacification, legitimation – and ...Open AccessArticle -
Exhibition review: Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s “Retold-Untold Stories”
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Experiments in Cross-Scalar Labour Organizing: Reflections on Trade Union-Building Work in Aceh after the 2004 Tsunami
Published 2012-01-01As part of the post-tsunami reconstruction effort Aceh, international labour movement organizations “jumped scale” in an attempt to revitalize a moribund local labour movement. This article provides a close analysis of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Fluid Boundaries: Modernity, Nation and Identity in the Riau Islands
Published 2009-01-01While there is growing scholarly interest in the everyday meanings and practices of nation building in Indonesia, there has been little consideration of the role the sea plays in drawing the nation together or in the ways ...Open AccessBook chapter -
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar
Published 2016-01-01Privatisation is contentious but in Myanmar it has not so much been its merits or drawbacks that have attracted attention as questions around implementation. In Myanmar, the implementation of privatisation has broad ...Open AccessArticle -
From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Published 2019-04-15What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook -
From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia. Introduction
Published 2019-01-01What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The Global Union Federations and Temporary Labour Migration in Malaysia
Published 2013-01-01Since the mid-2000s, the Global Union Federations have played a pivotal role in the reshaping of Malaysian trade unions’ attitudes towards temporary migrant workers, providing the conceptual tools and material resources – ...Open AccessArticle -
The Global Union Federations in International Industrial Relations: A Critical Review
Published 2015-01-01In recent decades, trade unions have been challenged to attempt to develop new forms of representation, action and institutional engagement in response to the increasingly transnational character of production and service ...Open AccessArticle -
The Go-Jek Effect
Published 2017-01-01Worldwide, debate is raging over the growth of app-based transport services as companies like Uber transform the way transport is provided and how consumers access it (Isaac 2014; Aloisi 2015). Often referred to as ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The illegal as mundane
Published 2019-10-28Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more ...Open AccessArticle -
In Search of a Living Wage in Southeast Asia
Published 2017-01-01Purpose – Debates over the definition, processes and outcomes of minimum and “living” wages are heated and often politically contentious in garment-producing countries. Internationally, there have been various initiatives ...Open AccessArticle -
Indonesia as an Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing the Seas
Published 2009-01-01Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. By the latest official count, the archipelago consists of 18,108 islands, which lie scattered between the mountainous island of Breueh in the west and tiny Sibir Island ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Indonesian labour since Suharto: Perspectives from the region
Published 2008-01-01Since the mid 1980s, Indonesian labour has gone through a turbulent period of restructuring and reformation, as the industrial relations landscape was transformed, firstly by the government’s export-oriented industrialisation ...Open AccessArticle -
Indonesian Women as Export Commodity: Notes from Tanjung Pinang
Published 2001-01-01In Indonesia, the plight of TKW (Tenaga Kerja Wanita - the common term for women migrant workers) has been a subject of public controversy for decades. Academic accounts of the conditions of Indonesian migrant domestic ...Open AccessArticle