UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Dr Andrew Brown School of Social Science University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia Phone: (02) 67733519 Fax: (02) 67733748 Email: abrown2@metz.une.edu.au |
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UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Dr Andrew Brown School of Social Science University of New England Armidale, NSW 2351 Australia Phone: (02) 67733519 Fax: (02) 67733748 Email: abrown2@metz.une.edu.au |
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Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Dr Brown's research is primarily concerned with capitalist revolution in Southeast Asia and the momentous economic, social and political consequences that flow from this. I am particularly interested in the changing nature of class structures marked especially by the emergence of wage-labour. In this I am interested in the attendant rise of labour movements and in understanding the character of the relationship that has developed between wage-labour and the state. In examining this relationship, I place the rise
of wage-labour and the historical emergence of working class oppositions in the context of processes of regime change marked by the rise of civil societies and transitions between authoritarian and more democratic forms of rule. In addition, I am interested in debates within social and political theory relevant to an explanation of these sweeping processes of change.
Current research includes Political Reform in Thailand; The Politics of Organised Labour in Thailand; Industrialisation and Workplace Health and Safety; the Politics of Labour Migration in Thailand
Recent publications:
(with Jane Hutchison) (2001) 'Organising Labour in Globalising Asia' London: Routledge.
(2001) 'After the Kader Fire: Labour Organising for Improved Workplace Health and Safety Standards in Thailand' in Jane Hutchison and Andrew Brown (eds) 'Organising Labour in Globalising Asia' London: Routledge.
(2001) with Hutchison, J. 'Theorising Labour' in Jane Hutchison and Andrew Brown (eds) 'Organising Labour in Globalising Asia' London: Routledge.
(1998) Daniel Fineman, 'A Special Friendship: The United States and Military Government in Thailand, 1947-1958' in Australian Journal of International Affairs 69(1), pp. 610-12
(2002) Damien Kingsbury, ‘South-East Asia: A Political Profile’, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001, xvii, pp. 444 in Journal of Contemporary Asia, forthcoming.