Browsing Research Publications and Outputs by subject "trade unions"
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A Challenge for Business? Developments in Indonesian Trade Unionism after Soeharto
Published 2004-01-01This chapter discusses debates on unionism and business from a labour movement perspective. It begins by briefly outlining developments in unionism in New Order Indonesia and sketching changes in the regulatory environment ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Contested Borders, Contested Boundaries: The Politics of Labour Migration in Southeast Asia
Published 2012-01-01This chapter examines the political economy of labour migration in the region, with a focus on its implications for collective action. It argues that the pivotal role of temporary labour migrants in Southeast Asiaposes ...Open AccessBook chapter -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Migrant Labor NGOs and Trade Unions: A Partnership in Progress?
Published 2006-01-01Over 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, ...Open AccessArticle -
Migrant Worker Organizing in Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
The State, Democratic Transition and Employment Relations in Indonesia
Published 2016-01-01Indonesia’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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Translating Membership into Power at the Ballot Box? Trade Union Candidates and Worker Voting Patterns in Indonesia’s National Elections
Published 2015-01-01This article analyses the effectiveness of trade unions’ electoral engagement in the union-dense electoral localities of Bekasi and Tangerang in Indonesia’s 2009 legislative elections. Our analysis reveals that legacies ...Open AccessArticle -
A Victor's History: A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Historiography of Indonesia's New Order
Published 2010-01-01Some observers have identified a common pattern in developing countries whereby unions are transformed from a political force valued for their contribution to the struggle for independence to a state-sponsored ‘tool of ...Open AccessArticle -
Women and labour organizing in Asia: diversity, autonomy and activism
Published 2008-01-01Women have become the new face of industrial labour – and of labour activism – not only in Korea, in all but the most and least developed countries of Asia. Export-oriented industrialization strategies favoured throughout ...Open AccessBook chapter