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“In this most significant contemporary study of Indonesian trade unions and the broader working class, Max Lane provides a concise and informed examination of the practical and ideological challenges of incipient labour organizations engaged in political and popular struggles in an underdeveloped nation. This detailed and highly informative book evokes similar historical and comparative struggles of exploited workers worldwide and is indispensable for students of labour movements in the Global South.” —Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
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The first analysis of how Indonesia's labor movement overcame organizational weakness to become the most vibrant in Southeast Asia.
Die 29-jährige Ngadinah hat in Indonesien Fußballschuhe für den multinationalen Konzern adidas genäht. Gleichzeitig kämpfte sie als Gewerkschafterin gegen die schlechten Bedingungen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz. Dafür verbrachte sie 2001 einen Monat im Gefängnis.In ihrem Kampf fand sie Unterstützung bei einem transnationalen Akteursnetzwerk, bestehend aus Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Gewerkschaften, das weltweit für die Einhaltung internationaler Sozialstandards in der Bekleidungsindustrie kämpft. Mitglieder dieses Netzwerkes üben in den Konsumentenländern gezielt Druck auf Bekleidungsunternehmen wie adidas oder Karstadt aus, um die Situation der Arbeiter/innen in den Produktionsländern zu verbessern.Diese politikwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zeigt anhand der Geschichte von Ngadinah und zwei weiteren exemplarischen Fällen, wovon eine erfolgreiche Arbeit des Netzwerkes abhängt, so dass die Näher/innen in den „Weltmarktfabriken“ menschenwürdigere Konditionen vorfinden.
The most comprehensive survey to-date of how different organizations hold persons acting in the public interest to account.
Over the past two decades, trade union activity in Batam has been heavily influenced by regional demographics, employment conditions and the prevalent political scenario. Following the end of the New Order in 1998, the single state-authorized union was fragmented, giving rise to a number of new enterprise unions. Batam’s young and diverse immigrant population, with no pre-existing loyalties to particular trade unions, made it a hotspot for industrial relations activities. Low and stagnant workers’ wages throughout Indonesia and outbreak of social unrest resulted in the formation of three strong national-level unions: FSPMI, KSPSI and the KSBSI. By the mid-2000s, these unions were also ac...
Beyond Decent Work explores the history of the Indonesian labor movement, using three contemporary case studies to shed light on the development of Indonesia's labor struggles and trade union strategies. Drawing on extensive and recent qualitative fieldwork, Felix Hauf argues that the economic idea of "decent work" plays a central role in current trade union strategies at the expense of more radical--or traditional working-class--strategies of industrial action, even though the latter have been more effective in fulfilling workers' demands for higher wages and better working conditions. Hauf's analysis offers unique insight into the labor dynamics of Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, revealing how genuinely democratic and independent unions--confronted with rival unions controlled by businesses, Indonesian subcontractors, multinational corporations, and the Indonesian state--struggle to create an economy outside the confines of neoliberal capitalism.
This collection analyses new forms and expressions of conflict at work under capitalism. Using theoretical and empirical approaches, it demonstrates an underlying historical continuity to new forms and expressions of conflict at work and a path dependency by country and culture.
Argumen utama buku ini adalah bahwa kewargaan dibentuk dan dipraktikkan melalui serangkaian gerakan melawan ketidakadilan. Gerakan-gerakan ini berupa serangkaian perjuangan—oleh rakyat di level akar rumput dan kelas menengah beserta organisasi perwakilan dan para aktivisnya—untuk pengakuan kultural, keadilan ekonomi dan sosial, serta representasi politik. Perjuangan ini secara umum berujung pada keterlibatan mereka dengan negara melalui proses-proses diskursif dan non-diskursif. Kendati negara menjadi simpul yang utama, perjuangan-perjuangan ini seringkali masih tercerai-berai, baik antar-sektor maupun posisi-posisi subjek. Membangun rantai solidaritas antar-fragmen perjuangan tersebut s...
Defending Legal Freedoms in Indonesia provides fresh insights into how cause lawyers navigate political and institutional change, by presenting and analysing the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), the oldest and most influential legal and human rights organisation in Indonesia. Based on rich ethnographic research, this book charts the developments of the organisation since its founding in 1970, its contribution to the ending of the authoritarian, military-backed New Order (1966-1998), its relative decline in the years following Indonesia’s democratisation and its revival in recent years as Indonesian democracy and human rights come under threat. The author examines the tactics the or...