Labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / edited by Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crinis, Vicki, editor.

Vickers, Adrian, 1958- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 134.

Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 134

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing workers--Asia.

Clothing workers.

Clothing workers--Pacific Area.

Labor and globalization--Asia.

Labor and globalization.

Labor and globalization--Pacific Area.

Asia.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

xviii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made disposable by the globalization of production"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : dis-organizing labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers

The fragmentation of the clothing and textile trade union movement in Malaysia / Vicki Crinis

Scrutinizing the effectiveness of trade unions in post-socialist Vietnam / Anne Cox

Before Rana Plaza : toward a history of labour organizing in Bangladesh's garment industry / Dina Siddiqi

Migrant workers in the clothing industry : networking in Christian spaces / Vicki Crinis and Angie Ngoc Tran

China's migrant workers and the global financial crisis / Katherine Hannan

Workers in the Indian export garment industry : surviving neoliberal reforms / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase

Child labour and gender discrimination in the garment industry of Kong Pisei, Cambodia / Melanie Beresford, Ivan Cucco and Laura Prota

Asian women doing home-based garment manufacturing in Sydney, Australia / Elissa Sutherland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138125704

1138125709

OCLC:

966572522