Workers and Intellectuals
NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement
$75.00
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2009
Summary
After decades of repression, Indonesia’s independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s, led by the NGO activists and students who organised industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998 when Suharto’s authoritarian regime crumbled, and labour NGO activists and their organisations continued to play an influential and often controversial part in the reconstruction of the labour movement.Workers and Intellectuals explores ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789971694883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9971694883 |
| Author: | Michele Ford |
| Publisher: | NUS Press |
| Imprint: | NUS Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 153mm |
| Series: | ASAA Southeast Asian Publications Series |
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About The Author
Michele Ford
Michele Ford chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour transnationalism and trade union responses to labour migration.
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