Asian Labour Update

Melts Into Air: Modernity Politics and Workplace Health

2011-03-01

Issue No : 77 October - December 2010

By Melody Kemp

The world’s peoples rallied in support of the failed Burmese people’s uprising in 2007. Footage of dignified, serious-faced burgundy-clad monks taking to the streets in a peaceful protest against the increasingly untenable living conditions in Burma captured the world’s imagination and sympathy. People were increasingly angered as the images changed to those of the ruling junta beating and arresting hundreds of protesters, monks included.

Organizing Occupational and Environmental Victims

2011-03-01

Issue No : 77 October - December 2010

Updates on the Philippine Call Centres

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Dr. Rene Ofreneo

The Philippines is Southeast Asia’s industrial sick man (barely any transformation since the 1970s) and agricultural failure (a major net importer of agricultural products since 1995). The country’s weak agro-industrial growth is the primary reason for the rapid expansion of the informal economy (employing as much as 2/3 of the labour force) and the country’s continuing dependence on the remittances of its 10 million or so migrant workers, roughly a tenth of the population.

Challenges for Organizing the BPO Workers in India

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Surendra Pratap

Challenges for Organizing the Beer Promotion Women in Cambodia

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Horng Vuthy

Introduction

The worldwide financial crisis has caused huge damage to Cambodia’s tourism, garment manufacturing and construction sectors. Those sectors comprise three of the Southeast Asian kingdom’s four economic pillars (besides agriculture) and the bulk of its economic growth over the past decade. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs in the past 16 months or are earning less than before.

Strategies and Challenges for the Youth Labour Movement: The Experience of ‘Youth Labor Union 95’ in Taiwan

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Por-Yee Lin

The ‘labour movement’ may be something unfamiliar or weird for the majority of Taiwanese people in their everyday life, especially for the young people. If we would like to have a ‘youth labour movement’, what is to be done?

A Strike Threat Produces Results — the Hong Kong Dragon Airlines Flight Attendants Association

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Doris Lee; Interview with Chris Suen

Organizing Sales Promoters: Casualized Women Workers in Supermarkets

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By Meilin Wu

The Struggle of Cabakura Union – Union of Cabaret Hostesses

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

By IINO Ayumi, Translated by CHIJIWA Gen

Editorial: Organizing service workers in Asia needs fresh attention

2010-09-01

Issue No : 76 July - September 2010

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