Women and Labour Organizing in Asia (ASAA Women in Asia)

✍ Scribed by Kaye Broadbent:

• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns throughout the region. Although focusing primarily on women, the contributions to this book address issues that affect all workers. Chapters on China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Bangladesh examine the part that female labour activism has played inside, and outside, formal union movements. Whilst documenting the peculiar factors characterising individual national contexts, the book emphasises the similarities in women’s experiences of union and labour activism and the barriers women labour activists have faced. It considers the relationships between women union members and activists and male officials and union members, links with other social movements – particularly the broader women’s movement – and the details of specific labour campaigns and struggles.  In doing so, it provides a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, and successfully challenging the prevailing conception of Asian women workers as passive and uninterested in industrial issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Tables......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Series editor’s Foreword......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Women and labour organizing in Asia: Diversity, autonomy and activism......Page 20
2 Indonesia: Separate organizing within unions......Page 34
3 China: Labour organizations representing women......Page 53
4 Malaysia: Women, labour activism and unions......Page 69
5 Sri Lanka: Contradictions for women in labour organizing......Page 85
6 Bangladesh: Women and labour activism......Page 103
7 Thailand: Women and spaces for labour organizing......Page 119
8 India: The Self Employed Women’s Association and autonomous organizing......Page 134
9 Korea: Women, labour activism and autonomous organizing......Page 155
10 Japan: Women workers and autonomous organizing......Page 175
Index......Page 191