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Labour Resurgence Under Globalization
Editorial
Submitted by amrc on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 16:52.On 27-28 August 2007, Asian labour activists and supporters from around the world gathered together, on the occasion of AMRC’s 30th anniversary, to share information and views on Labour Resurgence Under Globalization. For Asian activists, the major concern was naturally what direction the labour movement in Asia should go in, and what AMRC’s role could and should be.
A Race to the bottom: Philippine Labor under Imperialist Globalization
Submitted by amrc on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:07.Latin America at the Crossroads: Domination, Crisis, Popular Movements, & Political Alternatives
Submitted by amrc on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:05.Roberto Regalado
Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation
Submitted by amrc on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:00.Edited by Ching Kwan Lee
India
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:27.The Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security Bill is introduced into Indian Parliament
The Unorganised Sector Workers’ Social Security Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha (Parliament) of India on 10 September 2007 by the Union Minister of State for Labour, Shri Oscar Fenandes.
Vietnam
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:26.Nike factory workers on strike; partial success
More than 10,000 workers at a factory that produces Nike shoes in southern Vietnam went on strike on 27 November to demand higher supplemental pay and better lunches.
On 3 December, it was reported that the striking workers have returned to the plant after receiving a pay increase of 70,000 Vietnamese dong (US$ 4.50) monthly transportation allowance. The company also agreed to improve the food at the factory cafeteria.
Global Social Emancipation: From the Past to the Future- and from Labour to Society?
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:21.Introduction:
AMRC, from the past to the future
Being over 30, I can remember the parents of AMRC, the US church people, Tom Fenton and Mary Heffron, who I met in their documentation centre in San Francisco, in the 1970s. AMRC in the 1980s was one of 5-10 key nodes in what we called ‘the new labour internationalism’, ‘shopfloor internationalism’, ‘international labour communications by computer’.
Japan
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:10.President of Manpower Supply Agency Arrested for Allegedly Supplying Illegal Foreign Workers to Factories
Sri Lanka
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 17:08.Sri Lanka to seal a minimum wage of US$ 200 a month for expatriate workers
Sri Lanka government has decided to bring new laws to restrict the flow of migrant workers to West Asian countries for low wages from next year. The government expects a minimum monthly wage of US$ 200 per head from any prospective country for the country’s expatriate labor force.
Sri Lanka government has decided to bring new laws to restrict the flow of migrant workers to West Asian countries for low wages from next year. The government expects a minimum monthly wage of US$ 200 per head from any prospective country for the country’s expatriate labor force.
Some West Asian countries pay very low wages to Sri Lankan housemaids and those salaries remain on the level of little over US$ 100 a month for many years now.
Pakistan
Submitted by amrc on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 16:54.Lawyers and human rights activists arrested; partial releases while thousands remain in custody
After General Pervez Musharaf declared emergency rule on 3 November, demonstrations and strikes occurred all over Pakistan. Newspaper accounts of them could be found but no private television channel has been allowed to telecast ther broadcasting in Pakistan.
