Asian Monitor Resource Centre has just published its newest publication, Asia Pacific Labour Law Review- Workers' Rights for the New Century.
Books can be ordered online using all major credit cards from the AMRC Web site at http://www.amrc.org.hk
" The book is no quick read, consisting of almost 400 A4-size pages; each chapter deals with a country/region. It is more than simply a review of labour law as laid down in statutes; it presents labour unions' and activists' responses to labour law, its effects on the unorganised workers who make up the largest labour sector, and what it means in their daily lives."
North Korea: workers are at the mercy of new-liberal economic reforms
Japan: restructuring identified as responsible for many Japanese suicides that rose from 200,000 to 300,000 at the end of the 1990s
Cambodia: the labour law only covers around 25 percent of the labour force
Bangladesh: labour legislation prevents union organising in Export Processing Zones
Vietnam: public workers who enjoyed a ' work for life' system now work under flexible contracts
India: repressive British colonial labour legislation has changed little in over 50 years
Bhutan: the elite denies workers almost every fundamental right
China: it took 14 separate Chinese authorities to draft 18 occupational health and safety rules
Thailand: the Labour Relations Act covers only around 50 percent of the workforce
To contact AMRC to buy a copy please see http://www.amrc.org.hk or
write to;
Asia Monitor Resource Centre
Flat 8-B, 444 - 446 Nathan Road
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Tel: (852) 2332-1346
Fax: (852) 2385-5319
E-mail: admin@amrc.org.hk / omana@amrc.org.hk
Books can be ordered online using all major credit cards from the AMRC Web site at http://www.amrc.org.hk
" The book is no quick read, consisting of almost 400 A4-size pages; each chapter deals with a country/region. It is more than simply a review of labour law as laid down in statutes; it presents labour unions' and activists' responses to labour law, its effects on the unorganised workers who make up the largest labour sector, and what it means in their daily lives."
North Korea: workers are at the mercy of new-liberal economic reforms
Japan: restructuring identified as responsible for many Japanese suicides that rose from 200,000 to 300,000 at the end of the 1990s
Cambodia: the labour law only covers around 25 percent of the labour force
Bangladesh: labour legislation prevents union organising in Export Processing Zones
Vietnam: public workers who enjoyed a ' work for life' system now work under flexible contracts
India: repressive British colonial labour legislation has changed little in over 50 years
Bhutan: the elite denies workers almost every fundamental right
China: it took 14 separate Chinese authorities to draft 18 occupational health and safety rules
Thailand: the Labour Relations Act covers only around 50 percent of the workforce
To contact AMRC to buy a copy please see http://www.amrc.org.hk or
write to;
Asia Monitor Resource Centre
Flat 8-B, 444 - 446 Nathan Road
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Tel: (852) 2332-1346
Fax: (852) 2385-5319
E-mail: admin@amrc.org.hk / omana@amrc.org.hk