Women and Labour Organizing in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
Redaktion: Broadbent, Kaye; Ford, Michele

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, this book successfully challenges the prevailing conception of women workers in Asia as passive and uninterested in industrial issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134125272
• Artikelnr.: 42977742

Autorenporträt

Kaye Broadbent is currently based is in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include the impact of gender on work and industrial relations and gender and unions in a comparative context. Her publications include Women's Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers (2003), also published by Routledge. Michele Ford chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour migration in Southeast Asia and women and work. She is co-editor, with Lyn Parker, of the edited collection Women and Work in Indonesia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford 2. Indonesia: Separate Organizing within
Unions Michele Ford 3. China: Labour Organizations Representing Women Fang
Lee Cooke 4. Malaysia: Women, Labour Activism and Unions Vicki Crinis 5.
Sri Lanka: Contradictions for Women in Labour Organizing Janaka Biyanwila
6. Bangladesh: Women and Labour Activism Shahidur Rahman 7. Thailand: Women
and Spaces for Labour Organizing Andrew Brown and Saowalak Chaytaweep 8.
India: The Self-Employed Women's Association and Autonomous Organizing
Elizabeth Hill 9. Korea: Women, Labour Activism and Autonomous Organizing
Kyoung-hee Moon and Kaye Broadbent 10. Japan: Women Workers and Autonomous
Organizing Kaye Broadbent