Crinis / Vickers Labour in the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-29766-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly share the experience of job insecurity.

This edited book presents carefully researched case studies and analyses the ways labour is informalized, fragmented and made disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns. Contributors further examine the role of the nation state, government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring systems such as the International Labour Organization.

Offering new insights into the understanding and support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this book will be of interest to academics of a variety of disciplines including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development, human rights, labor and gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crinis, Vicki

Vickers, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers 2. The Fragmentation of the Garment and Textile Trade Union Movement in Malaysia, Vicki Crinis 3. Scrutinizing the Effectiveness of Trade Unions in Post-socialist Vietnam, Anne Vo 4. Migrant Workers in Malaysia: Networking in Christian Spaces, Vicki Crinis and Angie Ngoc Tran 5. Migrant Workers’ Wages and China’s Share of the Global Market for Low-cost Goods, Katherine Hannan 6. Workers in the Indian Export Garment Industry: Surviving Neoliberal Reforms, Ruchira Ganguly–Scrase 7. Child Labour and Gender Discrimination in the Garment Industry of Kong Pisei, Cambodia, Ivan Cucco and Laura Proto 8. Asian Women Doing Home-based Garment Manufacturing in Sydney, Australia, Elissa Sutherland 9. Chapter on Bangladesh

Über Autor(innen)

Vicki Denese Crinis is Research Associate at CAPSTRANS in the History and Politics Department at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Adrian Hassall Vickers is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and Director oft he Asian Studies Program at The University of Sydney, Australia.