Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region

Reflections and New Directions

Edited by Peter Holland, Julian Teicher, Richard Gough

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About the Book

This book focuses on new developments in employment in Asia. The context for this discussion is provided by the processes of globalisation, and the associated debate on labour standards. Individual chapters focus on issues such as the role of NGOs as surrogate unions, employment regulation in export processing zones, social protection, and the impact of political reform on the employment relationship.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Asia Pacific Business Review.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Peter Holland and Julian Teicher 2. Korean Employment Relations Practices and Global Manufacturing Strategies: The Hyundai Motor Company in Canada and India Russell D Lansbury, Seung-Ho Kwon, William Purcell and Chungsok Suh 3. Substitute Trade Union or Novel Form of Labour Movement Organisation?: Understanding Indonesia's labour NGOs Michele Ford 4. Community Based Agencies as the Entrepreneur's New Instruments in Post-Soeharto's Indonesia Nicolaas Warouw 5. Industrial Relations Reform in Taiwan: Emergence towards Uncertainty John Rice and Ku Chen-Yen 6. Unions in New Zealand: A Retrospective Raymond Harbridge and Glen Thickett 7. Trade Union Responses to Outsourcing in Australia Julian Teicher, Peter Holland and Van Gramberg 8. Labour Management Model Emanating from the Asian EOI Environments Donella Caspersz 9. Globalisation and Minimum Wages Peter Brosnan