Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalised World (Changing Labour Relations in Asia)

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Labour in Southeast Asia
Title Page
Copyrignt Page
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Tables and Figures
Contributors
Chapter 1: Studying Labour in Southeast Asia: Reflections on Structures and processes
	The Regulation of Labour and Labour Regimes
	Labour Processes: Old Forms, New Meanings
	Labour Mobility and Work Transformations
	Reproducing Workers: The Boundaries of Community
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2: Labour Dynamics in the Plantation and Mining Sectors in Southeast Asia, 1840–1950: A Historical Perspective
	Political and Economic Structures in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
	The International Economy, 1840–1914
	Migration Flows and the International Division of Labour
	Labour Dynamics in the Mining Sector
	Labour Dynamics in the Plantation Sector
	The State and Processes of Recruitment of South Indian Plantation Labour in Malaya
	Gender and Plantation Labour
		Malaya
		Sumatra
	Wages and Conditions of Work of Indian Plantation Workers in Malaya
		Wage Policy
	An Era of Trade Restrictions and Protection (1914–45)
	Individual and Collective Responses by Workers
	Case Study – Labour Organisation in Malaya
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Constructing Child Labour: Attitudes to Juvenile Work in Indonesia, 1900–2000
	Childhood and Work Around 1900
	Regulating and Re-Defining Child Labour in the 1920s
	Enforcing Restrictions on Child Employment: The Late Colonial Years
	Attitudes to Juvenile Work and Education in the Late Twentieth Century
	References
Chapter 4: Trade Unions in Vietnam in Historical Perspective: The Transformation of Concepts
	Trade Unions in Historical Perspective
	The 1959 Constitution
	The War Period and Liberation
	The 1980 Constitution
	The 1992 Constitution
	Trade Union Structure
	The Tasks of the Trade Unions
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Local Politics and Labour Relations in the Philippines: The Case of Subic Bay
	Philippine Local Politics
	The Personal Politics of Development at Subic
	Labour Market Regulation at Subic Bay
		Volunteerism
		Recruitment of Industrial Labour
		Recruitment of SBMA Administrative Staff
		Labour Relations and Dispute Resolution
		Unionisation in Subic Bay
	Local Politics and the Labour Market
	References
Chapter 6: Are They Incompatible? Modern Farming and Non-Market Labour In the Northern Philippine Uplands
	New Farming and Non-Market Forms of Labour
	Dynamics of a Local Smallholding Pattern
	Local Agricultural Change Without State Patronage
	Fitting Reciprocal Labour to Market-Oriented Farming
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 7: From Resource Managers to Secondary Farm Hands: Changing Gender Divisions of Labour in a Philippine Upland Village
	The Kalanguya
	Gender, Resource Use And Debt Labour in Canabuan: The Pre-War Years, 1900–41
	The Advent of Commercial Logging
	Gendered Experiences of Environmental Degradation, 1960s–70s
	Rice Scarcity, Debt and Food Crisis Management
	Digressing from the Norm
		A Woman\'s Four-day Diary (excerpts)
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 8: Labour Practices outside the Factory: Modern Forms of Household Production in Java
	Jepara Furniture
	Workshops
	The Labour Force
	Hierarchies and the Control of Labour
	Payments
	Conflict
	Concluding Remarks
	References
Chapter 9: Transforming Industrial Relations: The Case of the Malaysian Auto Industry
	The History Of Malaysian Industrial Relations
	The Development of the Malaysian Auto Industry
		The Recipe for National Auto Industrialisation
		The Malaysian Auto Industry Until the Crisis 1997–99
		The Impasse of National Auto Industrialisation
		The East Asian Crisis and the Malaysian Auto Industry
	The Centralisation of the Auto Industrial Relations System
		The Industrial Workers Union
		The Employer\'s Association
	The Decentralisation of the Auto Industrial Relations System
		Employer Driven Decentralisation
		Policy Driven Decentralisation: the Proton In-House Union
		Labour Driven Decentralisation
		Countering Decentralisation
		Business Driven Changes
		Crisis-Driven Transformation of the Industrial Relations of the Auto Industry
	Explaining the Changing Malaysian Auto Industrial Relations System
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Labour Relations and Mobility in Provincial Thailand
	From Rice-Growing to Brickmaking: The Rise of Rural Industry in Klang District
	Northeasterners in the Central Plains
	Invisible Workers
	The Attraction of Factories
	The Economic Crisis and Empty Huts
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Labour Relations in a Changing Rural World: The Evolving Thai Experience
	The Political Economy of Agriculture in Thailand
	From Farm to Non-Farm
	Looking Back: Sources of Change
		The Trouble with Farming
		Than Samay – the Culture of Modernity
		Gender, Class and Generation
	Agriculture and Labour Relations in Thailand\'s New Rural World
		Labour Short and Land Poor – Squaring the Circle
		Gender and Generational Divisions of Labour in Agriculture
		\'Squeezing\' Agriculture
	Labour Groups in Thung Sadok
	Complementary or Conflicting? Emerging Rural – Urban Relationships
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Labour Restructuring in Vietnam Since the Economic Reform
	Demographic Evolution and Dependency
		The Mobilisation of Labour after the War
		The Demographic Framework
		Fall of Dependency
		Explosion of the Labour Supply
	Dynamics Of The Labour System
		Feeding the Labour Market: Education
		Flows in the Institutional Sectors
		Women\'s Participation
		Unemployment and Underemployment
		Farming work and the Shift from Agriculture
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: Domestic Workers and Transnational Migration:  Perspectives from the Philippines and Singapore
	Migration from the Philippines
	Reactions within the Philippines
	The Export of Domestic Workers from the Philippines
		Domestic Service in the Philippines
		The Demand for Filipina Domestic Workers in Singapore
	The Filipina Migrant\'s Experience
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 14: Labouring Communities: Women\'s Roles in the Ombilin Coal Mines of Sumatra (1892–1965)
	Entering the World of the Ombilin Coal Miners
		The Different Categories of Labour
		Government Responses to Women as Members of the Mining Community
		Gender Differentiation in Hiring Policies
	The Miner\'s Politics of Resistance and the Hidden Role of Woman
	The Politics of Accommodation and the Emergence of the Family (1928–42)
	The Japanese Occupation and the Period of Revolution (1942–49)
	Political Protest and the Unity of Interest (1950–65)
	Concluding Remarks
	References
		Archives
		Interviews
		Oriental Collections
		Newspapers
		Official reports
		Articles, Books
Chapter 15: Labour Politics in Migrant Communities: Ethnicity and Women\'s Activism in Tangerang, Indonesia
	Ethnicity and Labour in Indonesia
	Gender, Ethnicity And Social Networks: Lampung Migrant Workers
		Factory Work and Lampung Identity
		Migration, Identity and Social Networks
	Social Networks and Political Activism
	Conclusion
	References
Index