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The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers
worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the
Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted
production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of
manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost
advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour
market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This
book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the
ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made
disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address
issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of
activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with
diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns.
Contributors further examine the role of the nation state,
government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring
systems such as the International Labour Organization. Although
there has been considerable effort directed to understanding how
firms operate across multiple countries - in studies of the
organization of global production networks, and the implications
for complexities of scale, (de)territorialization and state
development projects - there has been far less focus on how these
processes produce precarious labour and reshape worker
consciousness. Offering new insights into the understanding and
support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this
book will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines
including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development,
human rights, labour and gender.
The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers
worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the
Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted
production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of
manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost
advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour
market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This
book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the
ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made
disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address
issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of
activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with
diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns.
Contributors further examine the role of the nation state,
government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring
systems such as the International Labour Organization. Although
there has been considerable effort directed to understanding how
firms operate across multiple countries - in studies of the
organization of global production networks, and the implications
for complexities of scale, (de)territorialization and state
development projects - there has been far less focus on how these
processes produce precarious labour and reshape worker
consciousness. Offering new insights into the understanding and
support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this
book will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines
including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development,
human rights, labour and gender.
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam,
Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless,
the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains
relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005,
traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240
million people, from the colonial period through revolution and
independence to the present. Framed around the life story of
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's most famous and controversial
novelist and playwright, the book journeys through the social and
cultural mores of Indonesian society, focusing on the experiences
of ordinary people. In this new edition, the author brings the
story up to date, revisiting his argument as to why Indonesia has
yet to realise its potential as a democratic country. He also
examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which has haunted
Indonesia since the fall of Suharto.
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam,
Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless,
the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains
relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005,
traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240
million people, from the colonial period through revolution and
independence to the present. Framed around the life story of
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's most famous and controversial
novelist and playwright, the book journeys through the social and
cultural mores of Indonesian society, focusing on the experiences
of ordinary people. In this new edition, the author brings the
story up to date, revisiting his argument as to why Indonesia has
yet to realise its potential as a democratic country. He also
examines the rise of fundamentalist Islam, which has haunted
Indonesia since the fall of Suharto.
Remarkable for its meticulous archival research and moving life
stories, the Pearl Frontier offers a new way of imagining
Australian historical connections with Indonesia. This compelling
view from below of maritime mobility demonstrates how, in the
colonial quest for the valuable pearl-shell, Australians came to
rely on the skill and labor of Indonesian islanders, drawing them
into their northern pearling trade empire. From the 1860s onwards
the pearl-shell industry developed alongside British colonial
conquests across Australia's northern coast and prompted the Dutch
to consolidate their hold over the Netherlands East Indies.
Inspired by tales of pirates and priceless pearls, the pearl
frontier witnessed the maritime equivalent of a gold rush; with
traders, entrepreneurs, and willing workers coming from across the
globe. But like so many other frontier zones it soon became
notorious for its reliance on slave-like conditions for Indigenous
and Indonesian workers. These allegations prompted the imposition
of a strict regime of indentured labor migration that was to last
for almost a century before giving way to international criticism
in the era of decolonization. The Peal Frontier invites the reader
to step outside the narrow confines of national boundaries, to see
seafaring peoples as a continuous population, moving and in
communication in spite of the obstacles of politics, warfare, and
language. Instead of the mythologies of racial purity, propagated
by settler colonies and European empires, this book dissects the
social and economic life of the port cities around the
Australian-Indonesian maritime zone and lays open the complex,
cosmopolitan relationships which shaped their histories and their
present situations. Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers bring
together their expertise on Australian and Indonesian history to
challenge the isolationist view of Australia's past. This book
explores how Asian migration and the struggle against the
restrictive White Australia policy left a rich legacy of mixed
Asian-Indigenous heritage that lives on along Australia's northern
coastline. This book is an important contribution to studies of the
coastal or Pasisir culture of Southeast Asia, that situates the
local cultures in a regional context and demonstrates how
Indonesian maritime peoples became part of global migration flows
as indentured laborers. It offers a hitherto untold story of
Indonesian diaspora in Australia and reveals a degree of
Indian-Pacific interconnectedness that forces us to rethink the
construction of regional boundaries and national borders.
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