Publications for Purchase
Books and reports are also regularly produced at AMRC, mostly in English. They reflect the work, studies and projects of AMRC and are published in stages or at the end of AMRC’s first-hand research.
New AMRC Publications
Editor: Asia Monitor Resource Centre mainly publishes labour-related publications in English. However in the interest of a truly Asian labour movement we endeavour to publish Asian language works as well as translate important publications from English into Asian languages. Below are two new publications in Chinese.
Killing the Future: Asbestos use in China - Chinese version
This book is a translated version of the original English report published in July 2007, authored by Laurie Kazan-Allen from International Ban Asbestos Secretariat in collaboration with 15 other organizations from Asia and other parts of world.
The report details the alarming level of asbestos consumption in Asia which is in stark contrast to the complete ban or bare minimal asbestos consumption in many industrialized countries.
The book also reveals that the asbestos ban and reduced consumption in the west meant that manufacturers started to search for new markets and Asia has emerged as the single largest market with China and India being the largest consumers.
The high consumption in Asia is also related to the fact that it is heavily promoted in Asia, especially by the Canadian Chrysotile Institute. Canada is one of the largest producers of asbestos and exports most of it to Asia.
China is both one of the largest consumers and largest producers of asbestos.
This book contains information about the hazards of asbestos and steps being taken in different Asian countries to ban its use. We sincerely hope that this book can make a contribution towards the movement to ban asbestos in China.
Price: US$ 7;HK$50
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Voices from Below : China’s Accession to WTO and Chinese Workers
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.
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Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations: A Portrait of Struggle
(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.
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.
US Price: $ 20
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Challenging the Chip: Labour Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
(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.
More information can be found at Temple University Press
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.
More information can be found at Temple University Press
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A Critical Guide to Corporate Codes of Conduct - Voices from the South
(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.
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.
US Price: $ 8
HK Price: $ 60
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