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

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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. Cover 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