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Trade, Labour and Transformation of Community in Asia 2009th Edition
Author(s): M. Gillan (Editor), B. Pokrant
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 27 Nov. 2009
- Edition: 2009th
- Language: English
- Print length: 302 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230222498
- ISBN-13: 9780230222496
Book Description
This book considers the transformative impact of global trade and production networks on local economies, work and labour organization, and various forms and meanings of ‘community’. It examines the socio-economic transformation in Asia and the restructuring of manufacturing industries, ports and the information technology sector.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
MICHAEL GILLAN is Lecturer in employment relations at the University of Western Australia. His research interests include trade union responses to globalisation and industry restructuring, regulation of collective bargaining processes, and the political economy of liberalization and labour in India. He has published in a wide range of national and international journals including Economic Geography, South Asia and the Journal of Industrial Relations.
BOB POKRANT is Professor of Anthropology at Curtin University of Technology, Australia. His main research interests are climate change and development, aquaculture and fisheries in South Asia, and the global food system . He has published in international and national journals including
South Asia, Aquaculture International, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
