Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Herausgeber: Lee, Byoung-Hoon; Lansbury, Russell D; Sek-Hong, Ng
Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Herausgeber: Lee, Byoung-Hoon; Lansbury, Russell D; Sek-Hong, Ng
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This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen.
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This book considers the many challenges facing trade unions and worker representation in a wide range of Asian countries. For each country full background is given on how trade unions and other forms of worker representation have arisen.
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- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 635g
- ISBN-13: 9780367190491
- ISBN-10: 0367190494
- Artikelnr.: 57814947
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 635g
- ISBN-13: 9780367190491
- ISBN-10: 0367190494
- Artikelnr.: 57814947
Byoung-Hoon Lee is a professor at the Department of Sociology, Chung-Ang University. He received his Ph.D. at the Industrial and Labour Relations School, Cornell University. He previously worked as a research fellow at the Korea Labour Institute. He undertook presidential positions in various organisations, such as Korea Labour & Employment Relations Association, Labour Administration Reform Commission and Fair Labour Commission of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. At present, he is the chairman of Public Workers Solidarity Foundation. He was a co-editor of a special volume of Journal of Industrial Relations concerning Varieties of Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific region. He is recently working on labour and worker solidarity, precarious workers and labour market segmentation, informality of employment relations, the impact of digital revolution on working life and labour history in Korea. Sek-Hong Ng graduated from the University of Hong Kong and undertook postgraduate studies in industrial sociology and industrial relations at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, where he completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Keith Thurley. He returned to Hong Kong and joined the University of Hong Kong in the Department of Management Studies, later the School of Business. He is currently an honorary professor with the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong. He writes in the areas of employment and labour relations, trade unions and labour law. He is currently working on the study of labour law in the People's Republic of China as well as an occupational study on workers' expectations and alienation in Hong Kong. Russell D. Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School where he was also associate dean (research) and a head of department. He gained a PhD in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Lulea Technical University in Sweden and Macquarie University in Australia. He was a senior fulbright fellow at MIT and Harvard University as well as a visiting fellow at the Swedish National Institute for Worklife Research. He has been a Shaw Foundation Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a joint editor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage Books) now in its sixth edition. His research has focused on comparative employment relations in various industry sectors including auto manufacturing, banking and mining.
PART 1. INTRODUCTION
1. Refining Varieties of Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific
Region
2. Perspectives on Asian Unionism as a Regional Pattern
PART 2. COUNTRY CHAPTERS
3. Australian Unions: Crisis, Strategy, Survival
4. Unions and Alternative Forms of Worker Representation in China in an
Era of Privatisation and Globalisation
5. Compatibles or Incompatibles: Hong Kong Unions as One Brand of 'Asian
Unionism'
6. Trade Unions and Globalising India: Towards a More Inclusive Workers'
Movement?
7. Bucking the Trend: Union Renewal in Democratic Indonesia
8. Changes in the Labour Market and Employment Relationships in Japan
9. Malaysian Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century: Failed
Revitalisation in a Market Economy.
10. Worker Representation in a Segmented and Globalized Philippine
Economy
11. From Worker Representation to Worker Empowerment: The Case of
Singapore
12. Labour Unions and Worker Representation in South Korea
13. Still Trapped between the State and Management: Unions and Worker
Representation in Taiwan
14. Unions and Labour Representation in Thailand: Weakness Continued
15. The Reform of Vietnam Trade Union and the Government's Role Since Doi
moi
PART 3. CONCLUSION
16. Reflections on Union Movements and Worker Representation in the
Asia-Pacific Region
1. Refining Varieties of Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific
Region
2. Perspectives on Asian Unionism as a Regional Pattern
PART 2. COUNTRY CHAPTERS
3. Australian Unions: Crisis, Strategy, Survival
4. Unions and Alternative Forms of Worker Representation in China in an
Era of Privatisation and Globalisation
5. Compatibles or Incompatibles: Hong Kong Unions as One Brand of 'Asian
Unionism'
6. Trade Unions and Globalising India: Towards a More Inclusive Workers'
Movement?
7. Bucking the Trend: Union Renewal in Democratic Indonesia
8. Changes in the Labour Market and Employment Relationships in Japan
9. Malaysian Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century: Failed
Revitalisation in a Market Economy.
10. Worker Representation in a Segmented and Globalized Philippine
Economy
11. From Worker Representation to Worker Empowerment: The Case of
Singapore
12. Labour Unions and Worker Representation in South Korea
13. Still Trapped between the State and Management: Unions and Worker
Representation in Taiwan
14. Unions and Labour Representation in Thailand: Weakness Continued
15. The Reform of Vietnam Trade Union and the Government's Role Since Doi
moi
PART 3. CONCLUSION
16. Reflections on Union Movements and Worker Representation in the
Asia-Pacific Region
PART 1. INTRODUCTION
1. Refining Varieties of Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific
Region
2. Perspectives on Asian Unionism as a Regional Pattern
PART 2. COUNTRY CHAPTERS
3. Australian Unions: Crisis, Strategy, Survival
4. Unions and Alternative Forms of Worker Representation in China in an
Era of Privatisation and Globalisation
5. Compatibles or Incompatibles: Hong Kong Unions as One Brand of 'Asian
Unionism'
6. Trade Unions and Globalising India: Towards a More Inclusive Workers'
Movement?
7. Bucking the Trend: Union Renewal in Democratic Indonesia
8. Changes in the Labour Market and Employment Relationships in Japan
9. Malaysian Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century: Failed
Revitalisation in a Market Economy.
10. Worker Representation in a Segmented and Globalized Philippine
Economy
11. From Worker Representation to Worker Empowerment: The Case of
Singapore
12. Labour Unions and Worker Representation in South Korea
13. Still Trapped between the State and Management: Unions and Worker
Representation in Taiwan
14. Unions and Labour Representation in Thailand: Weakness Continued
15. The Reform of Vietnam Trade Union and the Government's Role Since Doi
moi
PART 3. CONCLUSION
16. Reflections on Union Movements and Worker Representation in the
Asia-Pacific Region
1. Refining Varieties of Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific
Region
2. Perspectives on Asian Unionism as a Regional Pattern
PART 2. COUNTRY CHAPTERS
3. Australian Unions: Crisis, Strategy, Survival
4. Unions and Alternative Forms of Worker Representation in China in an
Era of Privatisation and Globalisation
5. Compatibles or Incompatibles: Hong Kong Unions as One Brand of 'Asian
Unionism'
6. Trade Unions and Globalising India: Towards a More Inclusive Workers'
Movement?
7. Bucking the Trend: Union Renewal in Democratic Indonesia
8. Changes in the Labour Market and Employment Relationships in Japan
9. Malaysian Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century: Failed
Revitalisation in a Market Economy.
10. Worker Representation in a Segmented and Globalized Philippine
Economy
11. From Worker Representation to Worker Empowerment: The Case of
Singapore
12. Labour Unions and Worker Representation in South Korea
13. Still Trapped between the State and Management: Unions and Worker
Representation in Taiwan
14. Unions and Labour Representation in Thailand: Weakness Continued
15. The Reform of Vietnam Trade Union and the Government's Role Since Doi
moi
PART 3. CONCLUSION
16. Reflections on Union Movements and Worker Representation in the
Asia-Pacific Region