Worker Rights and Labor Standards in Asia’s Four New Tigers A Comparative Perspective

As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes:

• a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference
• comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations
• comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle
• China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism.

Prologue.- China.- The Political and Economic Background.- The Industrial Relations Scene: The Players, Problems, and Prospects.- The ACFTU, Labor Law, and Labor Reform.- The Law, Contracts, Strikes, and Dispute Settlement.- Worker Rights Issues.- Indonesia.- A Political, Economic, and Demographic Overview.- Unions, Employers, and Labor Market Developments.- The Legal Framework.- Labor Disputes and International Pressures.- Thailand.- The Institutional Background.- The Labor Law Framework.- Labor-Management Relations.- Worker Rights Issues.- International Developments.- Malaysia.- Political Events, Economic Facts, and Demographic Variables.- The Law and the Reality.- Labor Relations: Structure, Process, and Practice.- Unresolved Issues.- Malaysia and the World Scene.- Epilogue.