Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region

Byoung-Hoon Lee is a professor at the Department of Sociology, Chung-Ang University. He received his Ph.D. at the Industrial and Labour Relations School, Cornell University. He previously worked as a research fellow at the Korea Labour Institute. He undertook presidential positions in various organisations, such as Korea Labour & Employment Relations Association, Labour Administration Reform Commission and Fair Labour Commission of People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. At present, he is the chairman of Public Workers Solidarity Foundation. He was a co-editor of a special volume of Journal of Industrial Relations concerning Varieties of Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific region. He is recently working on labour and worker solidarity, precarious workers and labour market segmentation, informality of employment relations, the impact of digital revolution on working life and labour history in Korea. Sek-Hong Ng graduated from the University of Hong Kong and undertook postgraduate studies in industrial sociology and industrial relations at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, where he completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Keith Thurley. He returned to Hong Kong and joined the University of Hong Kong in the Department of Management Studies, later the School of Business. He is currently an honorary professor with the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong. He writes in the areas of employment and labour relations, trade unions and labour law. He is currently working on the study of labour law in the People’s Republic of China as well as an occupational study on workers’ expectations and alienation in Hong Kong. Russell D. Lansbury is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at the University of Sydney Business School where he was also associate dean (research) and a head of department. He gained a PhD in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Lulea Technical University in Sweden and Macquarie University in Australia. He was a senior fulbright fellow at MIT and Harvard University as well as a visiting fellow at the Swedish National Institute for Worklife Research. He has been a Shaw Foundation Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a joint editor of International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage Books) now in its sixth edition. His research has focused on comparative employment relations in various industry sectors including auto manufacturing, banking and mining.

PART 1. INTRODUCTION






Refining Varieties of Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region



Perspectives on Asian Unionism as a Regional Pattern
PART 2. COUNTRY CHAPTERS




Australian Unions: Crisis, Strategy, Survival



Unions and Alternative Forms of Worker Representation in China in an Era of Privatisation and Globalisation



Compatibles or Incompatibles: Hong Kong Unions as One Brand of ‘Asian Unionism’



Trade Unions and Globalising India: Towards a More Inclusive Workers’ Movement?



Bucking the Trend: Union Renewal in Democratic Indonesia



Changes in the Labour Market and Employment Relationships in Japan



Malaysian Trade Unions in the Twenty-first Century: Failed Revitalisation in a Market Economy.



Worker Representation in a Segmented and Globalized Philippine Economy



From Worker Representation to Worker Empowerment: The Case of Singapore



Labour Unions and Worker Representation in South Korea



Still Trapped between the State and Management: Unions and Worker Representation in Taiwan



Unions and Labour Representation in Thailand: Weakness Continued



The Reform of Vietnam Trade Union and the Government’s Role Since Doi moi
PART 3. CONCLUSION




Reflections on Union Movements and Worker Representation in the Asia-Pacific Region