ISSN 1815-9389

Issue Number 78

January - March 2011

© Copyright 2011 Asian Labour Update; all rights reserved

EDITOR and Layout

Doris Lee

with Layout  Assistance from Rey Asis

EDITORIAL TEAM

ApoLeong, Sanjiv Pandita, Omana George, Sri Wulandari,

Sally Choi, Fahmi Panimbang and Surendra Pratap

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Guest writers in this issue

Boy Lüthje is a senior fellow at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt in Germany and a visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu, specializing on global production in China and other developing economies. Email: luethje@soz.uni-frankfurt.de.

Wang Ting is a PhD. Candidate from City University of Hong Kong.

Liang Shumei  works for Labour Education and Service Network, a Hong Kong-based labour NGO serving workers in mainland China. Email: lesnhkweb@lesnhk.org.

Becky Fung and Francine Chan work for Worker Empowerment (WE), a Hong Kong-based labour organization which concerns labour rights in China. WE developed a community approach to outreach workers, migrant workers in particular, and to organize them through labour education. Email: workerempowerment@gmail.com

Hyun-phil Na is the Vice Executive Director of Korea House of International Solidarity. Email: khis21@empas.com.

Teruko Watanabeis a member of the Action Center for Working Women (ACW2) and Working Women’s Network in Japan. Email: teruhiroasa@yahoo.co.jp

Venkatachandrika Radhakrishnan and Madhumita Dutta work for Corporate Accountability Desk, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Emails: vchandrikar@gmail.com and madhu.dutta@gmail.com, respectively.