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Offshoring the Risks: Gendered Occupational Hazards in Malaysian and Indonesian Electronics Factories

2021-02-19

While health hazards and poor working conditions inside electronics factories have been well documented, few studies extensively cover these issues in terms of gender relations. This research attempts to establish a causal relationship between exposure to certain chemicals and the implications for reproductive health and investigates the issues that affect women workers more directly.

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Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) Statement - Stop oil palm plantations! Fight for land, fight for life!

2016-03-30

Day of the Landless

Stop oil palm plantations! Fight for land, fight for life!

Statement

March 30, 2016

As we mark the Day of the Landless on March 29, the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) is launching the “Stop Oil Palm Plantations!” campaign. This, amidst the massive and aggressive expansion of the palm oil industry that further threatens the life and livelihood of countless farmers, farm workers, indigenous peoples, and other oppressed and exploited rural sectors in the region.

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Workers’ Struggle amid Capital Mobility (A Short Training Module for Workers)

2015-12-22

This education module on capital mobility explains the capitalist crisis, and assesses the impact of capital mobility on workers and trade unions. The module also provides stories of workers in the global supply chains and their struggles.

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Understanding Capital Mobility and Global Production Networks (A Meeting Report)

2015-08-17

This meeting report discussed the prospect of labour organising in Asia.

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Rights-Based Financing for Rights-Based Social Protection in Southeast Asia

2015-05-29

Issue No : 87 May 2015

By Joy Hernandez

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Labour Scholars and Activists Exchange

‘The Bottom Up’ International Labour Solidarity: Victims’ Organizing in the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims

2015-03-22

Issue No : 86 March 2015

By Sanjiv Pandita

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Report on Social Protection in South East Asia 2014

2015-03-10

Southeast Asian economies show notable performance in the recent years. In 2013, for instance, the growth rate of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) is 4.9 per cent compared to the entire world’s GDP growth rate of 3.0 per cent. However, despite this significant GDP growth rate, employment in Southeast Asia did not rise in the same rate as the GDP has risen. It has grown only by 1.5 per cent. Moreover, poverty remains prevalent and income gaps become wider. In other words, the economic growth in numbers does not translate to the improvement of the quality of lives of the people at the grassroots level.

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Working Asia

Labour Resistance in Asia: A Proceeding Report

2015-02-06

The two-day meeting focused on understanding and mapping the landscape of labour resistance in Asia in the past decade or so, with a special focus on identifying, in each country, (1) emerging forms of labour resistance, (2) emerging actors and players in new labour movements, and (3) trends in emerging alliance building and collaborative initiatives.

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Asian Labour Leadership Conference: A Proceeding Report

2015-02-06
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Emerging Trends in Factory Asia: International Capital Mobility, Global Value Chains, and the Labour Movement

2015-01-01

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Social Protection Southeast Asia Partners’ Meeting 2014

2014-06-28

The Asian Roundtable on Social Protection (AROSP) meeting for Southeast Asian partners happened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 27-28 June 2014. It intends to consolidate the AROSP partners’ network in Southeast Asia towards the strengthening of the social protection advocacy in the region. It was attended by 30 participants (14 women and 16 men) representing workers’ organisations in different Southeast Asian countries including Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Samsung Electronics' Supply Chain in Asia

2014-02-05

This map tells the story of Samsung Electronics' Supply Chains and their working condition across Asia. It shows cases of occupational ill and victims in several Asian countries and key issues including labour union busting by Samsung companies and its suppliers and violence towards workers, among others. 

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[4th AROSS] Sharpening Labour’s Role in Advancing Social Protection for All in Asia 2013

2013-10-22
 

The content of this book is upon of the discussion in the Fourth Asian Roundtable on Social Security meeting which was co-organised by AMRC and the University of Philippines in Manila. The book includes country reports on social protection in Asia, overview on the road to social protection in Asia, outcome of the conference, among others. The book serves to provide comprehensive information on social protection for all from the labour perspective in Asia.

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An Overview of the Growth of Samsung Group Malaysia

2013-03-13
Nganyin Lai
 
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Labour Rights in High Tech Electronics: Case Studies of Workers' Struggles in Samsung Electronics and its Asian Suppliers

2013-01-01
This book describes the struggles of workers fighting for their basic rights in the electronics industry with a focus on the operations of Samsung Electronics and its Asian suppliers, including those in South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. It also discusses the overall situation of the electrical appliance and electronics industries in Japan where workers have been hit hard by factories relocations.
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Malaysia Free Industrial Zones: Reconfiguration of Electronics Production Space_We in the Zone (2)

2012-12-11

The paper discusses the development of the zone in Malaysiaas the country pursues its ambition to become the regional hub for the economic growth. In 2007, Malaysiagovernment put into action its plan for the establishment of the economic corridors in five designated regions in Malaysia.

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Asian Labour Law Review - Rights for 2/3 of Asia

2008-01-01

AMRC with support from Committee for Asian Women and Homenet Southeast Asia

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Asia Pacific Labour Law Review: Workers' Rights for the New Century

2003-01-01
 

This book is more than a review of labour law, it is the only comprehensive review available of labour law in the Asia Pacific region. It investigates the impact of labour law on workers in 30 countries. It analyses trade union and labour activists’ responses to changes in labour law, and examines what labour law means for workers’ daily lives. Each chapter representing a country can be downloaded country wise for download below.
 

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