Women and Labour Organizing in Asia

Kaye Broadbent is currently based is in the Department of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her research interests include the impact of gender on work and industrial relations and gender and unions in a comparative context. Her publications include Women’s Employment in Japan: The Experience of Part-time Workers (2003), also published by Routledge. Michele Ford chairs the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement, labour migration in Southeast Asia and women and work. She is co-editor, with Lyn Parker, of the edited collection Women and Work in Indonesia.

• 1. Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford 2. Indonesia: Separate Organizing within Unions Michele Ford 3. China: Labour Organizations Representing Women Fang Lee Cooke 4. Malaysia: Women, Labour Activism and Unions Vicki Crinis 5. Sri Lanka: Contradictions for Women in Labour Organizing Janaka Biyanwila 6. Bangladesh: Women and Labour Activism Shahidur Rahman 7. Thailand: Women and Spaces for Labour Organizing Andrew Brown and Saowalak Chaytaweep 8. India: The Self-Employed Women’s Association and Autonomous Organizing Elizabeth Hill 9. Korea: Women, Labour Activism and Autonomous Organizing Kyoung-hee Moon and Kaye Broadbent 10. Japan: Women Workers and Autonomous Organizing Kaye Broadbent