Research
AMRC undertakes research with regional and local labour groups into issues affecting workers in Asia. Current research projects include:
- Comparative labour law in Asian countries
- Lay-offs in China’s state owned enterprises
- Informalisation of labour
- Occupational Safety and Health Education
- Mobility of capital
- Women workers in Asian Export Processing Zones
- The impact of TNC subcontracting on workers and social development
- Migrant workers in Southern China
- Monitoring workers' conditions and workers' rights in the sports shoe, garment, toy industries, electronics and gem and jewellery
Information and Documentation
AMRC monitors and processes information on all aspects of labour in Asia including:
- global and regional trends
- national social and political situations, and labour
- data on wages and employment
- trade union profiles
- occupational safety and health
- transnational corporations
- industry-specific data
Services
AMRC provides services to the following:
- grassroots NGOs concerned with women workers, labour issues, and development of activists within the labour movement
- labour organisations specialising in areas such as education and training, health and safety, and labour rights
- NGOs in developed countries and international organisations concerned with labour rights and labour standards in Asia
- organisations requesting information on specific countries or industries for the purpose of raising public awareness of labour issues in Asia
- NGOs seeking North-South or South-South collaboration on research projects, monitoring, information exchange, and the analysis and sharing of experiences of organising
Education and Training
AMRC provide education and training to grassroots groups in Asia, for both capacity-building and creation of labour organizing opportunities. See Education and Training
Campaigns
AMRC participates in local and international campaigns that support our local partners, and that assert worker rights and worker democracy. See Campaigns