Labour in Southeast Asia : local processes in a globalised world / / edited by Rebecca Elmhirst and Ratna Saptari

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon; Amsterdam : , : International Institute of Social History, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 331/.0959
• Soggetto topico: Labor - Southeast Asia
• Soggetto geografico: Southeast Asia Economic conditions
• Classificazione: 85.63
• Altri autori: ElmhirstRebecca SaptariRatna
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Studying labour in Southeast Asia / Ratna Saptari and Rebecca Elmhirst -- Labour dynamics in the plantation and mining sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840-1950 / Amarjit Kaur -- Constructing child labour / Benjamin White -- Trade unions in Vietnam in historical perspective / Irene Nørlund -- Local politics and labour relations in the Philippines / Chan Fong Yin and Philip F. Kelly -- Are they incompatible? Modern farming and non-market labour in the northern Philippine uplands / Edsel E. Sajor -- From resource managers to secondary farm hands / Bernadette P. Resurrección -- Labour practices outside the factory / Jennifer Alexander and Paul Alexander -- Transforming industrial relations / Peter Wad -- Labour relations and mobility in provincial Thailand / Daniel Arghiros -- Labour relations in a changing rural world / Jonathan Rigg -- Labour restructuring in Vietnam since the economic reform / Xavier Oudin -- Domestic workers and transnational migration / Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Richard T. Jackson -- Labouring communities / Erwiza Erman -- Labour politics in migrant communities / Rebecca Elmhirst.
• Sommario/riassunto: In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks, and contrasting labour regimes, histories and cultures. The contributions show the importance of critically examining both the complex nature of global-local links and the particular ways economic processes are around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning
• Titolo autorizzato: Labour in Southeast Asia
• ISBN: 1-135-79136-8; 0-203-64185-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787656903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Changing Labour Relations in Asia