ABSTRACT
In this book Brown argues that workers in East and Southeast Asia are significant actors in political change. Critically examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of 'class factors' he aims to bring workers back from the margins, demonstrating that both in the present and past the state has been entangled in processes that determine the forms of their struggles. This book presents new empirical data, important historical material and an innovative approach to workers and politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
chapter |21 pages
Monarchs, workers and struggles for a voice
chapter |16 pages
Radicalism, shifting alliances and managing labour's political space
chapter |17 pages
Organizing labour in the 1990s
Crisis and continuing struggles for a political voice