"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...

Employer collective action and employers' associations in Asia -- Employer collective action in the labour market : theory, traditions and trends -- Employers' associations in Japan : fragmented conservatism -- Employers' associations in South Korea : increasing importance for industrial...

1. Culture, ritual and economic style -- 2. The Chinese ritual economy as historical type -- 3. Institutions, ideas and ritual in the modern Chinese political economy -- 4. Local state, ritual and territorial competition -- 5. The ritual foundations of markets -- 6. Chinese enterprise,...

1. Two major Asian peripheries, China and India, and their distinct corporate economies : the silent tongue of "one Asia or many" -- 2. The restructuring of China's state-owned enterprises since 1978 -- 3. Chinese retailers abroad and Chinese consumption patterns at home : the prosperous age of...

1. Introduction : dis-organizing labour in the clothing industry in the Asia Pacific / Vicki Crinis and Adrian Vickers -- 2. The fragmentation of the clothing and textile trade union movement in Malaysia / Vicki Crinis -- 3. Scrutinizing the effectiveness of trade unions in post-socialist...

Asia has undergone rapid economic transformation over the past two decades. Despite its constant economic growth, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the resulting surge in unemployment highlighted the vulnerability of national systems that base development solely on economic growth. This...