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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 -
Institutions and Collective Action in Divided Labour Movements: Evidence from Indonesia
Published 2017-01-01Under what conditions do trade unions in divided labour movements cooperate? Does cooperation in one domain increase the likelihood of cooperation in the other? Do institutions facilitate or discourage cooperation? We ...Open AccessArticle -
The International Labour Organization as a Development Actor in Southeast Asia
Published 2018-01-01Typically, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is discussed in narrow terms with specific reference to its role in setting labor standards and the success or otherwise of its attempts to convince governments and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
International Networks and Human Rights in Indonesia
Published 2011-01-01Following Risse and Sikkink, I privilege the point of interaction between local and international campaigns for better access to human rights in my analysis of the socialisation of human rights norms and the establishment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia
Published 2012-01-01Men and masculinities are the subject of burgeoning scholarly interest, much of it driven by a desire to render masculinities visible. Masculinities scholars argue that men as men have rarely been treated as the subjects ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Introduction: Thinking about Indonesian Women and Work
Published 2008-01-01Women and Work in Indonesia is an edited collection of papers that aims to examine the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. The chapters interrogate some of the formerly clear-cut divisions that even the ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Investing in Care Key to Boosting Economic Growth
Published 2019-01-01The need to increase women’s labour market participation and economic security is on the ‘to do’ list of most governments and major global institutions. Global consulting firm McKinsey calculates that global GDP would ...Open AccessArticle -
It’s about Bang for Your Buck, Bro: Singaporean Men’s Online Conversations about Sex in Batam, Indonesia
Published 2008-01-01Studies of sexuality and the Internet have focused on how the web provides individuals with opportunities to perform new sexual acts and establish new sexual communities, thus challenging heteronormative models of sexuality. ...Open AccessArticle -
Labor Migration, Trafficking and Border Controls
Published 2012-01-01The increasing securitization of borders can make the process of border crossing more onerous and expensive for all individuals who seek to cross the border. As a result, borderlanders involved in routinized border crossings ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Labour Migration and Human Trafficking: An Introduction
Published 2012-01-01Anti-trafficking initiatives grew exponentially since the United Nations passed the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (hereafter the UN Trafficking Protocol) ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Labour NGOs: An Alternative Form of Labour Organizing in Indonesia, 1991-1998
Published 2006-01-01Although Indonesia's labour non-government organizations (NGOs) are in many ways unique, they are in fact part of a global surge in non-traditional labour activism, in which international and indigenous labour NGOs have ...Open AccessArticle