LEADER 03278nam 2200541 450 001 9910812830503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3515-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501735158 035 $a(CKB)4100000007808157 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5732731 035 $a(OCoLC)1043147461 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73780 035 $a(DE-B1597)527405 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501735158 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5732731 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007808157 100 $a20190329d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom migrant to worker $eglobal unions and temporary labor migration in Asia /$fMichele Ford 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (210 pages) 311 $a1-5017-3514-4 311 $a1-5017-3516-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAsia's labor migration and employment relations regimes -- Asia's migrant labor NGOs -- Enter the GUFs -- The GUFs and migrant workers in Asia -- Measures of success. 330 $aWhat 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, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding of the role the international labor movement and local unions have had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights. Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions show that in countries-Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand-where resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations more influence local unions have become much more engaged with migrant workers. But in countries-Japan and Taiwan, for example-where they have little effect there has been little progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to act. 606 $aLabor unions$xOrganizing$zAsia 606 $aForeign workers, Asian$xLabor unions$xOrganizing 606 $aLabor movement$zAsia 606 $aInternational labor activities$zAsia 615 0$aLabor unions$xOrganizing 615 0$aForeign workers, Asian$xLabor unions$xOrganizing. 615 0$aLabor movement 615 0$aInternational labor activities 676 $a331.5/4095 700 $aFord$b Michele$0763338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812830503321 996 $aFrom migrant to worker$94081900 997 $aUNINA