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Labor and Politics in Indonesia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Labor and Politics in Indonesia

The first analysis of how Indonesia's labor movement overcame organizational weakness to become the most vibrant in Southeast Asia.

Assembling Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Assembling Women

Despite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely unchanged. This book addresses two related questions: What has prompted the feminization of manufacturing work in developing countries, and why has it failed to significantly erode gender inequalities at work? Teri L. Caraway offers case studies and in-depth analysis of employment changes in Indonesia combined with cross-national data to show that the feminization of the workplace produced by industrialization policies has reconfigured and reproduced, rather than overturned, gender divisions of labor at work. Caraway challenges the conventional wisdom th...

The New Politics of Transnational Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The New Politics of Transnational Labor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-15
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  • Publisher: ILR Press

Over the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have not. In The New Politics of Transnational Labor, Marissa Brookes explains why this dichotomy has occurred. Using the coordination and context-appropriate (CCAP) theory, she assesses this divergence, arguing that the success of transnational alliances hinges not only on effective coordination across borders and within workers' local organizations but also on their ability to exploit vulnerabilities in global value chains, invoke national and international institutions, and mobilize networks of stakeholders in ways that threaten employers' core, material interests. Brookes u...

Working through the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Working through the Past

Democratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains for labor. Explanations for this phenomenon have focused on the effect of economic crisis and globalization on the capacities of unions to become influential political actors and to secure policies that benefit their members. In contrast, the contributors to Working through the Past highlight the critical role that authoritarian legacies play in shaping labor politics in new democracies, providing the first cross-regional analysis of the impact of authoritarianism on labor, focusing on East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Legacies from the predemocratic era shape labor’s present in ways that both limit and enhance organized labor’s power in new democracies. Assessing the comparative impact on a variety of outcomes relevant to labor in widely divergent settings, this volume argues that political legacies provide new insights into why labor movements in some countries have confronted the challenges of neoliberal globalization better than others.

Beyond Oligarchy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Beyond Oligarchy

Beyond Oligarchy is a collection of essays by leading scholars of contemporary Indonesian politics and society, each addressing effects of material inequality on political power and contestation in democratic Indonesia. The contributors assess how critical concepts in the study of politics—oligarchy, inequality, power, democracy, and others—can be used to characterize the Indonesian case, and in turn, how the Indonesian experience informs conceptual and analytical debates in political science and related disciplines. In bringing together experts from around the world to engage with these themes, Beyond Oligarchy reclaims a tradition of focused intellectual debate across scholarly communi...

Politicized Enforcement in Argentina
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Politicized Enforcement in Argentina

Amengual investigates how labor and environmental regulations can be enforced by drawing on a study of politics in Argentina.

Rules Without Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Rules Without Rights

This book is about what it really means when companies claim to be promoting sustainability and fairness in their global operations.

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 705

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism

This volume offers an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the historical institutionalism research tradition in Political Science.

Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 603

Research Handbook on Transnational Labour Law

  • Categories: Law

The editors’ substantive introduction and the specially commissioned chapters in the Handbook explore the emergence of transnational labour law as a field, along with its contested contours. The expansion of traditional legal methods, such as treaties, is juxtaposed with the proliferation of contemporary alternatives such as indicators, framework agreements and consumer-led initiatives. Key international and regional institutions are studied for their coverage of such classic topics as freedom of association, equality, and sectoral labour standard-setting, as well as for the space they provide for dialogue. The volume underscores transnational labour law’s capacity to build bridges, including on migration, climate change and development.

Gendering Bodies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Gendering Bodies

Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction.