New Books
Women Workers in Industrialising Asia: Costed, Not Valued
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This book contributes to key theoretical debates about women workers in Asia and breaks new ground by focusing on issues that have been little documented in other studies of the area. It provides new information and insights into labour systems associated with labour-intensive export manufactures and state-labour relations in a comparative context. The book focuses on women's increased participation in the paid workforce in the context of rapid social and economic development that is taking place in Asia. It approaches women's work from an institutional and structural as well as an economic perspective by concentrating on a wide range of countries at different stages of development and size. The book also provides cross-national data and information on labour rights and trade union organisation among women in Asia. The book was a direct output from a UNEAC sponsored research project funded by a Wellcome Trust grant to Professor Amarjit Kaur and includes papers presented at a 2002 UNEAC International Workshop held at UNE. It was launched at UNE by Professor Ingrid Moses, Vice-Chancellor, UNE in Decemnber 2003 but was finally only published in January 2004. Kaur, A. (ed). 2004. Women Workers in Industrialising Asia: Costed, Not Valued. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN 0-333-96293-1 |
Globalisation and Development in Bangladesh: Labour and Environmental Issues
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This volume is a special issue of the journal South Asia and was a principal output of a joint Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia-UNEAC workshop held at UNE on 3-4 October, 2002. This workshop explored and debated globalisation, labour and environmental issues in one of the world’s poorest, yet most rapidly evolving country – Bangladesh. The volume contains selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the workshop. The volume was launched at UNE by Professor Ingrid Moses, Vice-Chancellor, UNE in Decemnber 2003. Kaur, A. and Metcalfe, I. (Guest Editors). 2003. Globalisation and Development in Bangladesh: Labour and Environmental Issues. Special Issue, South Asia Volume XXVI, No. 3, 253-480. |