Edited by May Wong ( Chinese version )

What has been the impact of China’s accession to the WTO in 2001? Most discussions have focused on the positive impacts from a business perspective. Yet in the period of 1996-2002, a total of 40 million workers were sacked because of restructuring and privatization, and probably 10 million of them were directly related to China’s accession to WTO. This book contains a selection of thirteen in-depth interviews with rank-and-file workers from the service and manufacturing sector in Beijing, Qingdao, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou in China. Through this book, workers give their own comments on the accession and what it will mean for the country, their enterprises and industry, and themselves. It record the hopes, fears and aspirations of the Chinese working class in the context of China’s deeper integration into the globalization web. This publication is in Chinese, the English language version is to be published later in  2008.

(English) 2006, 344pp
This new volume from the ATNC series of AMRC examines how ‘work’ is being recomposed by mobile capital in Asia. It traces the interaction between multinational companies and local labour, drawing on the examples of the evolution of emerging multinational giant Samsung Electronics, the world’s most profitable automaker Toyota, and the survival strategies of the Taiwanese national brand Tatung. We are shown how the world of labour and living has changed for workers as a result of these multinational companies’ operation and expansion of capital in Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India, and China.

(English) 2006, 357pp
From Silicon Valley in California to Silicon Glen in Scotland, from Silicon Island in Taiwan to Silicon Paddy in China, the social economic, and ecological effects of the international electronics industry are widespread. The production of electronic and computer components contaminates air, land, and water around the globe.

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(Chinese) 2005, 99 pp
This book seeks to understand the nature of corporate codes of conduct and utilise them in improving working conditions of millions of workers in Asia. The introductory chapters introduce us to the basic concepts surrounding codes of conduct, bringing together information on existing codes of conduct as well as a brief history of their development.

(English) 2005, 371 pp
This book provides a general picture of capital movement from Asia and thereby illuminating the importance of monitoring ATNCs. It includes achievements of the ATNC network researchers over the past two years. It highlights the impact of Asian investment on labour in different countries thereby providing an understanding of the restructuring of labour and the 'race to the bottom' of labour conditions as an aspect of a particular form of the globalisation of capital.