Vietnamese Labour Militancy

Capital-labour antagonisms and self-organised struggles
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-00313-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends of worker activism.
Vietnamese labour politics is undergoing significant changes, with a new Labour code that became law in 2021 allowing workers to join ‘worker representative organisations’ not subordinate to the state-led union or the ruling Communist Party. This book reflects on the nature of Vietnamese labour politics on the cusp of reform. It focuses on nominally formal labour within the garment and footwear industry in the southern part of the country, the author argues that while employment in the formal economy is expanding in terms of the absolute numbers of people working in formally registered firms, capital employs various ways to make conditions inside these companies increasingly insecure. In response, workers organise in forms of decentralised resistance. The book analyses two of these in detail; wildcat strikes and ‘microstrikes’—short collective work stoppages that occur inside workplaces.
Arguing that labour resistance is structured in relation to capital’s behaviour, and not only because of weak labour relations institutions and mechanisms, this book makes a valuable contribution to the field of labour and social movement studies, development studies, sociology, and political economy and Southeast Asian Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckley, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Context: historical, contemporary, scholarly 3. The informalising-formalising labour regime 4. Wildcat strikes: the archetypal form of militancy 5. Microstrikes: a hidden abode of resistance 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Buckley received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He is a labour consultant focusing on Southeast Asia and has written and taught widely on labour issues in the region.