Women and Labour Organizing in Asia

Diversity, Autonomy and Activism

Kaye Broadbent, Michele Ford, Kaye Broadbent , Michele Ford

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Routledge
03 April 2009

Gender studies: women; Labour economics

Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns throughout the region. Although focusing primarily on women, the contributions to this book address issues that affect all workers. Chapters on China, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Bangladesh examine the part that female labour activism has played inside, and outside, formal union movements. Whilst documenting the peculiar factors characterising individual national contexts, the book emphasises the similarities in women’s experiences of union and labour activism and the barriers women labour activists have faced. It considers the relationships between women union members and activists and male officials and union members, links with other social movements – particularly the broader women’s movement – and the details of specific labour campaigns and struggles. In doing so, it provides a full account of the role of women in union activism in Asia, covering all the major economies of the region, and successfully challenging the prevailing conception of Asian women workers as passive and uninterested in industrial issues.

Edited by: Kaye Broadbent, Michele Ford, Kaye Broadbent, Michele Ford
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780415545426
ISBN 10: 0415545420
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 April 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kaye Broadbent is currently based is in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include the impact of gender on work and industrial relations and gender and unions in a comparative context. Her publications include Women’s Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers (2003), also published by Routledge. Michele Ford chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour migration in Southeast Asia and women and work. She is co-editor, with Lyn Parker, of the edited collection Women and Work in Indonesia.

Reviews for Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism

More noir bombast from Ellroy (The Black Dahlia, etc.), who sets this cops, Commies, crooks, and creeps saga in 1950 L.A. When upright, uptight Sheriff's Deputy Danny Upshaw catches the squeal, it's particularly gruesome: someone removed the victim's eyes, ejaculated into the sockets, shredded his back with a Zoot Stick, then chomped on the innards with wolverine teeth. Three more murders, same M.O., follow, but Danny's investigation is slowed by his assignment to a grand jury team investigating the Commie menace in the UAES (United Alliance of Extras and Stagehands), including rich, nympho Claire DeHaven, her queer actor fiance Reynolds Loftis, and their left-wing pals. With HUAC tactics - blackmail, mostly - much of Hollywood's homosexual community is threatened, while the emerging Teamsters Union under Mickey Cohen is bashing heads and panel member Lt. Dudley Smith - with a murder of his own to keep under wraps - is making sure that Danny's investigation goes nowhere. Still, there are leads: to Loftis; to a Hollywood agent who arranged pansy parties; to jive musicians; to a plastic surgeon; and to the official Communist Party psychiatrist. Meanwhile, panel members Considine and Meeks have their own agenda: Considine and his wife are wrangling over child-custody; Meeks, a pimp for Howard Hughes, is sleeping with Cohen's girl and has to blow away bent cop Niels to keep it secret. Danny is accused of the murder - and commits suicide rather than submit to a lie detector test that will reveal his homophilia. Out of guilt, Meeks, with the help of Considine, picks up on his homicide investigation and uncovers a tale of homosexual incest, homosexual betrayal, rage, murder, and revenge, all neatly documented by the Commie psychiatrist. Despite all the Commie-baiting, the jive talk, the wisecracks, this is a cop story - too long by at least a third but propelled by a mean, dark vision of the world, with dank, sleazy language. Depressing, with a convoluted beginning, an impossible ending (the psychiatrist's rehash of the case), but there's a truly strong middle at 200 pages. On balance: O.K. (Kirkus Reviews)