Labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / edited by Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.

Introduction : dis-organizing labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers -- The fragmentation of the clothing and textile trade union movement in Malaysia / Vicki Crinis -- Scrutinizing the effectiveness of trade unions in post-socialist Vietnam / Anne Cox -- Before Rana Plaza : toward a history of labour organizing in Bangladesh's garment industry / Dina Siddiqi -- Migrant workers in the clothing industry : networking in Christian spaces / Vicki Crinis and Angie Ngoc Tran -- China's migrant workers and the global financial crisis / Katherine Hannan -- Workers in the Indian export garment industry : surviving neoliberal reforms / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Child labour and gender discrimination in the garment industry of Kong Pisei, Cambodia / Melanie Beresford, Ivan Cucco and Laura Prota -- Asian women doing home-based garment manufacturing in Sydney, Australia / Elissa Sutherland.

The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity.

"The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made disposable by the globalization of production"-- Provided by publisher.