After an overview of the state of industrial and labour strategies in Malaysia, the article focuses on labour in the context of industrial growth. It shows that moving from one technological niche to another would require systematic emphasis on skills, remuneration and training, and...

The political and economic forces underlying five (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore) ASEAN countries' industrialisation are discussed, and their impact on the material living conditions of the masses is examined. The key structural elements involved in promoting...

Using three levels (the role of macro-factors, the host government's role in promoting and administering the operations of textile and garment firms and firm-level research) of analysis, the author examines the role of competition and governance in explaining changes in work in Malaysia's...

The first part of the paper traces the emergence of the electronic industry and its contribution to Penang's economy, its susceptibility to external economic forces etc. The implications of these developments for the new international division of labour theories are examined in the second part....