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Offshoring the Risks: Gendered Occupational Hazards in Malaysian and Indonesian Electronics Factories
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The Challenge of Labour: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories

2011-04-09
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Workers resistance in mining industry: Demanding welfare and ownership

2011-04-09
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Labour in the ICT industry

2007-06-01
Issue No : 63  April - June 2007
 
EDITORIAL: Will the Asian Labour Movement meet the ICT Challenge?
The ICT industry has grown by leaps and bounds. It has rapidly become a major export industry for developing countries. While the US and Japan are still major exporters, developing countries, mainly in Asia, already account for almost 50% of all electronics exports.
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TNCs and Asian Labour

2006-01-07
Issue No : 57  October - December 2005
 
 
EDITORIAL: AMRC'S ASIAN TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION PROJECT AND THE NETWORK
In 2002, the first meeting of Asia Monitor Resource Centre’s (AMRC) Asian Transnational Corporations (ATNC) Project that gave rise to the ATNC Monitoring Network was held in Bangkok; since that time the network of groups has grown.
 
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WTO

2005-10-01
Issue No : 56  July - September 2005
 
Editorial: WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION: SICK, CYNICAL, AND DANGEROUS
It is six years since ALU reported on the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This edition returns to the topic as new issues affecting labour have arisen.
 
'SAFETY FIRST' - BLAMES THE WORKERS
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Global Supply Chains and the World of Capitalist Work

2005-04-01

The aim of this article is to explain global supply chains (GSC) as a symbolic form of the process in which labouring activity is for the first time truly capitalist labour on a global scale, with global capitalist social labour producing for global capital, under the increasing mobility of capital. I put the development of GSCs in the wider context of the recomposition of labour in the movement of capital, which includes the emergence and expansion of factory labour, Taylorism, and Fordism, and the increasing ‘global’ movement of capital and informal labour.

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Supply Chains

2005-01-10
Issue No : 54  January - March 2005
 
 
Editorial: Supply Chains: Taking money from the Poor to the Rich
‘Globalisation’ is a word that has only recently become popular but it is not a new concept (see ALU 41) as supply chains have been part of capitalist business at least since the sixteenth century voyages of discovery from Europe.
 
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Multifibre Arrangement

2004-10-01
Issue No : 52  July - September 2004
 
EDITORIAL: MFA/ATC: Workers Fear Losing Their Shirts
Removal of a quota system in exported garments and textiles is very much on the minds of many workers and trade unionists at present; the subject is even aired on mainstream news channels. This is because under World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, quotas are planned to disappear at midnight on 31 December 2004.
 
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MFA Phase out - Impact on Chinese Workers

2004-10-01

Jane Li

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Summary of Main speakers at a conference for Chinese NGOs on the Multifibre Arrangement

2004-10-01

Sharon Schroeder

AMRC, along with Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (HKCIC) and Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (DAGA), hosted a conference for Chinese NGOs on Codes of Conduct and the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) from August 2-4, 2004, at the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies. This article focuses on the MFA discussion.

Sweatshop Watch, US, Katie Quan

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