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Workers’ Struggle amid Capital Mobility (A Short Training Module for Workers)

2015-12-22

This education module on capital mobility explains the capitalist crisis, and assesses the impact of capital mobility on workers and trade unions. The module also provides stories of workers in the global supply chains and their struggles.

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Understanding Capital Mobility and Global Production Networks (A Meeting Report)

2015-08-17

This meeting report discussed the prospect of labour organising in Asia.

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Labour Scholars and Activists Exchange

‘The Bottom Up’ International Labour Solidarity: Victims’ Organizing in the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims

2015-03-22

Issue No : 86 March 2015

By Sanjiv Pandita

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Emerging Trends in Factory Asia: International Capital Mobility, Global Value Chains, and the Labour Movement

2015-01-01

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Trends in Japan’s Direct Overseas Investments and their Impact on Asian Workers

2014-11-25

Survey the trends in Japan’s direct overseas investments, and study how they are interconnected with the employment and business management situation.

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Samsung Electronics' Supply Chain in Asia

2014-02-05

This map tells the story of Samsung Electronics' Supply Chains and their working condition across Asia. It shows cases of occupational ill and victims in several Asian countries and key issues including labour union busting by Samsung companies and its suppliers and violence towards workers, among others. 

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Labour Rights in High Tech Electronics: Case Studies of Workers' Struggles in Samsung Electronics and its Asian Suppliers

2013-01-01
This book describes the struggles of workers fighting for their basic rights in the electronics industry with a focus on the operations of Samsung Electronics and its Asian suppliers, including those in South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. It also discusses the overall situation of the electrical appliance and electronics industries in Japan where workers have been hit hard by factories relocations.
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Decontamination Fantasy and Compensation: Getting TEPCO and the Government to Take Responsibility

2012-08-01

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Strengthening Freedom of Association in Asia: Strategies and Mechanisms

2011-12-11

A group of labour leaders and activists from seven Asian countries gathered to share experiences regarding “Strengthening Freedom of Association in Asia: Strategies and Mechanisms”, co-hosted by Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) and the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights (CTUHR). Aggressive union-busting and violent repression of organizing have been among the chief problems faced by Asian labour organizations when they organize workers in defense of their labour rights – with gross impunity even in cases where such rights are clearly constitutiona

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Capital Mobility and Workers in Asia: Case Studies on Japan, China, Philippines and Thailand

2011-10-04

The book provides an analysis that capital mobility has become major and underlying factor of the precarity of workers in Asia. The chapters - case studies on Japan, China, Philippines and Thailand - illustrate that workers’ collective bargaining power has declined which can be seen in the intensification of irregularisation, union busting actions, company closures, and massive dismissal of workers reported across the region. In many cases, this condition has resulted in the weakening of militancy of workers in countries that used to be dynamic actors in the labour rights movement.

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WELFARE AGENDA IN JAPAN: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ASIAN CONTEXT

2009-12-01

Yoshinori Hiroi

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Workers in the Supply Chain of the Global Automobile Industry

2005-04-01

Peter Wad

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Karoshi and Karojisatsu in Japan

2004-10-01

Sugio Furuya

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Nissan Revival Plan and Autoworkers in Japan

2004-01-07
Oidon
 
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Asia Pacific Labour Law Review: Workers' Rights for the New Century

2003-01-01
 

This book is more than a review of labour law, it is the only comprehensive review available of labour law in the Asia Pacific region. It investigates the impact of labour law on workers in 30 countries. It analyses trade union and labour activists’ responses to changes in labour law, and examines what labour law means for workers’ daily lives. Each chapter representing a country can be downloaded country wise for download below.
 

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TOKAIMURA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT FROM AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH VIEWPOINT

2001-07-01

Kansai

A nuclear flash at the JCO company’s Tokaimura nuclear plant on 30 September 1999 resulted in the deaths of two inexperienced workers [see ALU 32 for details]

The JCO Tokai plant employed 120 people. In this facility, uranium was re-processed, and supplied to fuel makers. Apart from being a rare specialist in nuclear material, the facility is one of many medium- or small- sized chemical plants.

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Comfort Women: Refuting the View of Being Licensed Prostitutes

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yuki Fujime

People who disapprove of any further post-war compensation by Japan repeatedly claim that comfort women were licensed prostitutes. What they are saying is that comfort women legally practised prostitution under the state-regulated prostitution system, therefore no official apology or compensation is necessary. How could such a nonsensical argument be accepted by Japanese society? I would like to study what the claim is based on from the historical viewpoint.

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WORKING CONDITIONS OF JAPANESE SEX WORKERS:CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS

2000-03-01

Issue No : 33 December 1999 - February 2000

Yukiko Kaname

The biggest challenge to the sex industry in Japan is that it is difficult to identify problems. Due to discriminatory attitudes of national legislation and society against sex work, sex workers cannot obtain information and do not have adequate systems for dealing with problems.

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