Globalisation and Work in Asia

• Author : John Burgess,Julia Connell
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 28 February 2007

This book reviews employment conditions in Asian countries. This is the hub of the strongest growth area in the world economy and while attention has focussed on job growth and industrial transformation, there has been very little attention on employment characteristics and employment conditions. In particular, the book addresses the issue of whether globalisation, taken to mean the growing international integration of economies, is a factor that leads to a convergence of employment conditions, and more importantly, an improvement in

• Author : Bart Lambregts,Niels Beerepoot,Robert C. Kloosterman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 August 2015

In the past two decades, several millions of IT-enabled services jobs have been relocated or ‘offshored’ from the US and Europe to, in particular, low cost economies around the world. Most of these jobs so far have landed in South and South-East Asia, with India and the Philippines receiving the bulk of them. This has caused profound changes in the international division of labour, and has had correspondingly wide social and economic effects. This book examines how this ‘next wave

• Author : Jeb Sprague
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 15 December 2015

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional

• Author : Sangheon Lee,Francois Eyraud
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 30 September 2008

This book represents a unique study which reviews employment conditions in Asia and the Pacific in the context of globalization and increasing pressure towards flexibilization. It places a strong focus on the diverging experiences of individual workers in their employment conditions such as employment status, wages/incomes, working time, work organizations and health and safety. Along with thematic studies concerning the roles of workers voice and labour regulation in determining employment conditions, this book includes nine country studies which have

• Author : Dong-Sook Shin Gills,Nicola Piper
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 28 October 2021

Shedding light on the real experiences of women in different societies, this book explores the impact of globalization and provides a survey of women and work using case studies and empirical data collected throughout Asia, as well as an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US.

• Author : Geoffrey Till,Emrys Chew,Joshua Ho
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 28 October 2021

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region. The work is structured into three main parts. The first explores globalization and its general effects on the policy-making of the nation-state; the second section looks at how globalisation affects a country's threat perception and defence posture within the specific context of the Asia-Pacific region; while the third explores how it impacts on a state's allocation of resources to defence,

• Author : Stacey Steele,Kathryn Taylor
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 07 December 2009

This book is a critique of the rapidly changing nature of legal education in major Asian jurisdictions as diverse as Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. It provides cross-country comparative material, including western legal education systems, and particularly detailed coverage of Japan.

• Author : Anthony P. D'Costa
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 14 June 2012

This volume documents the ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism. It challenges the view that globalization renders the state redundant and demonstrates how they shape trade, investment and financial outcomes. Countries covered include India, China, South Korea, Singapore, Japan and the East Asian region.

• Author : Helen E. Nesadurai
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 September 2012

What is the relationship between globalization and economic security? Globalisation and Economic Security in East Asia is an incisive new engagement with this important question that uses detailed conceptual exploration and fresh empirical analysis. Viewing traditional neorealist conceptions of economic security as overly narrow, this new study suggests that any conception of economic security in the contemporary era needs to also pay close attention to the nature of global capitalism, and the insecurities it generates for societies and individuals. This

• Author : Michele Ford,Lyn Parker
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 19 February 2008

This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only paid employment, home life and child care, but also activities surrounding ritual, healing and religious life. It analyses the key issues, including the contrasts between ‘new’ and ‘old’ forms of work, the relationship between experiences of migration and

• Author : Kevin Hewison,Professor Department of Applied Social Science Kevin Hewison,Ken Young
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 07 April 2006

Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first century concern. Transnational Migration and Work in Asia analyzes workers motivations and rationalities, highlighting the similarities of migration experiences throughout Asia.

• Author : Dong-Sook S. Gills,Nicola Piper
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 29 August 2003

This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and also includes an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US. This book is an invaluable resource, accessible to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of women's studies, labour relations, international political economy

• Author : Shiro Armstrong,Tom Westland
• Publisher : ANU Press
• Release : 08 January 2018

The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) conference series has been at the forefront of analysing challenges facing the economies of East Asia and the Pacific since its first meeting in Tokyo in January 1968. The 38th PAFTAD conference met at a key time to consider international economic integration. Earlier in the year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as their next president on the back of an inward-looking ‘

• Author : Chris Rowley,John Benson
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 28 October 2021

This study looks at the challenges of globalization and deregulation, and possible responses to them in a variety of ways.

• Author : Mohan Lal Sharma,Olive Peacock,Krishan Gopal
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 28 October 2021