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Asian Working Women and Agency: Their Voices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2023

Donella Caspersz
Donella Caspersz*
Affiliation:
Organisational and Labour Studies, University of Western Australia
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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges of organising women workers in Asia, and to discuss how trade unions can facilitate their more effective participation in these movements. The paper is primarily informed by research undertaken with Southern Initiative on Globalization and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR). Formed in Perth, Western Australia in 1991 and made up of delegates from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil, the aim of SIGTUR is to promote collaborative activity by independent trade unions in the ‘South’ or rather countries within the Asia-Pacific. The paper highlights the effects of neo-liberalism on workers and develop appropriate international responses.

Type
Symposium on Alternative Ways of Organising: Asian Labour’s Response to the ‘New’ Globalisation
Information
The Economic and Labour Relations Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , June 2003 , pp. 49 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2003

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