| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Series |
ASAA Women in Asia Series |
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ASAA women in Asia series.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Series editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Women and labour organizing in Asia: Diversity, autonomy and activism; 2 Indonesia: Separate organizing within unions; 3 China: Labour organizations representing women; 4 Malaysia: Women, labour activism and unions; 5 Sri Lanka: Contradictions for women in labour organizing; 6 Bangladesh: Women and labour activism; 7 Thailand: Women and spaces for labour organizing; 8 India: The Self Employed Women's Association and autonomous organizing |
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9 Korea: Women, labour activism and autonomous organizing10 Japan: Women workers and autonomous organizing; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Organizing -- Asia
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Women in the labor movement -- Asia
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Women labor leaders -- Asia
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Labor unions -- Organizing
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Women in the labor movement
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Women labor leaders
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, Michele
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| ISBN |
9780203938225 |
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0203938224 |
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1281101834 |
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9781281101839 |
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