Between consolidation and crisis focuses on five countries in Southeast Asia to examine how their elections have been conducted in the past two years, their domestic implication, and how the elections have differes from one another and from elections in other parts of Asia. Case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand provide an overall understanding of the impact…
Since the early 1990s codes of conduct for multinational corporations have been proliferating. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the different code models. Workers all over the world are confronted with new instruments which claim to improve their labour conditions.(see full in book...)
Since the early 1990s codes of conduct for multinational corporations have been proliferating. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the different code models. Workers all over the world are confronted with new instruments which claim to improve their labour conditions.(see full in book...)
Indonesia version of Workers tool or pr ploy?: a guide to codes of international labour practiceSejak awal tahun 1990-an, pedoman perilaku kerja untuk perusahaan multinasional telah berkembang pesat. Semakin sulit bagi kita untuk membedakan beberapa model pedoman. Para pekerja di seluruh dunia sedang menghadapi perangkat baru yang mengklaim akan memperbaiki kondisi perburuhan mereka.(see …
Dieses Buch arbeitet wichtige gesellschafts-, wirtschafts-und sozialpolitische Herausforderungen und Aufgabenstellungen heraus, denen sich SPD und Gewerkschaften in den nachsten Jahren gemeinsam gegenubersehen. Daruber hinaus legen Heinz-werner Meyer, der 1994 verstorbene Vorsitzende des DGB, und Rudolf Scharping, Vorsitzender der SPD, eine grundlegende Bewertung der Bezienhugen beider Organisa…
What caused Indonesia to experience the latgest fall un the value of its currency of any country since World War II? Was it Soros-type speculators stampeding herdlike out of the Rupiah after a massive colapse of cinfidence? Was it a calculated plot by an unkown person, group or power to topple President Soeharto ahead of the Presidential elections? Was it Indonesian goverment ineptitude? Was it…
Iklim ketenagakerjaan kita masih belum menemukan titik terang. Di luar masalah pengangguran dan tenaga kerja yang hijrah ke luar negeri, kehidupan buruh di dalam negeri masih dihadapkan pada masalah-masalah yang pada intinya terletak pada hubungan perburuhan: hubungan antar buruh dan pemerintah, buruh dan organisasi perburuhan, serta antara buruh dan majikan atau pengusaha. Akibat tidak pernah …
1995 was a turning points for the world’s workers and their trade unions, heralding a labour come-back. One important sign of this change was the founding of a new industrial trade union international, the 20 million strong International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM). Declaring itself ‘the forerunner of the new global institutions of labour’...…
The financial crisis struck Southeast Asia in 1997. The bursting of the Thai bubble in july 1997 which followed a slowdown that had crept in from late 1995 spread quickly across the region. Stocks and currencies in the region crashed one after another. The rise in inflation involving especially imported goods, and deflation especially involving domestic goods has wreaked havoc throughtout the r…
Selama masa Orde Baru, kebijakan industrialisasi untuk mencapai ambisi pertumbuhan ekonomi; dilakukan dengan menekan hak-hak buruh. Penekanan ini terjadi antara lain dalam kebijakan penetapan upah yang rendah, dan pengendalian organisasi yang berbentuk unitaris.Akibatnya seluruh sendi perjuangan buruh menjadi lumpuh. Karena upah yang rendah, buruh terpaksa harus berjuang keras mengejar lembur …