Asian Labour Update

International Workshop on Chinese Labour Regulations

2011-03-02

Issue No : 78 January - March 2011

By Wang Ting (PhD candidate)

Cheap Labour In Essence, Students In Name: Vocational School Interns In China

2011-03-02

Issue No : 78 January - March 2011

By Liang Shumei

Foxconn Workers Speak: We Are Treated Worse Than Machines

2011-03-02

Issue No : 78 January - March 2011

Compiled by Surendra Pratap, Venkatachandrika Radhakrishnan and Madhumitta Dutta

The global supply chain is our God? Case study of Batam Free Trade Zone as Singapore’s backyard for manufacturing processes

2011-03-02

Issue No : 78 January - March 2011

By Sri Wulandari

Introduction

All this time we might have worshiped the wrong God. It’s the global supply chain that put us here in Batam. It is the one who rules and determines our lives…it is the God

- The joke uttered by an Indonesian unionist after hearing an explanation of Batam FTZ electronics workers’ position within the global supply chain

Global Supply Chains

2011-03-01

Issue No : 78 January - March 2011

Editorial: Global Supply Chains - Struggle within or against them?
Global Supply Chains and Their Impact on the Labour Movement in Asia
International Workshop on Chinese Labour Regulations
Cheap Labour In Essence, Students In Name: Vocational School Interns In China
Korea House of International Solidarity: Responding to Labour Issues in Global Supply Chains