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From Migrant to Worker - Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia (Hardcover)
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From Migrant to Worker - Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia (Hardcover)
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What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of
temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study
of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong,
Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were
uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows
how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs
and the Global Union Federations are encouraging local unions to
represent and advocate for these peripheral workers, and in some
cases succeeding. From Migrant to Worker builds our understanding
of the role the international labor movement and local unions have
had in developing a movement for migrant workers' labor rights.
Ford examines the relationship between different kinds of labor
movement actors and the constraints imposed on those actors by
resource flows, contingency, and local context. Her conclusions
show that in countries-Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand-where
resource flows and local factors give the Global Union Federations
more influence local unions have become much more engaged with
migrant workers. But in countries-Japan and Taiwan, for
example-where they have little effect there has been little
progress. While much has changed, Ford forces us to see that labor
migration in Asia is still fraught with complications and
hardships, and that local unions are not always able or willing to
act.
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