Amarjit Kaur, "Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840: Globalization, the International Division of Labour and Labour Transformations"
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2004 | ISBN 0333736966 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.12 MB
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2004 | ISBN 0333736966 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.12 MB
Amarjit Kaur examines wage labor's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since the mid-nineteenth century, its focus is on globalization; the old and new international division of labor and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labor systems. There are five main themes–the labor process and labor systems in plantation, mining and manufacturing production; labor migration; labor in the urban sector; labor standard - wages, working conditions and labor rights, and labor organization.