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Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, Indonesia's labor movement is a vibrant political actor. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of this development, investigating the unique tactics Indonesia's labor movement used to gain a strategic foothold in a country with no recent history of union engagement in politics.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. The street and the ballot box; 3. National and local policy struggles, 1998-2008; 4. Shifting to offense; 5. Local executive races; 6. Legislative contests; 7. Building a working-class constituency; 8. Conclusion.
About the author
Teri L. Caraway is the author of Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing (2007) and co-editor of Working through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective (2015). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.Michele Ford is the author of From Migrant to Worker: The Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia (2019) and Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement (2009). Her research focuses on comparative labor politics, comparative and international political economy, and the Indonesian labor movement.
Summary
Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, Indonesia's labor movement is a vibrant political actor. This book provides the first in-depth analysis of this development, investigating the unique tactics Indonesia's labor movement used to gain a strategic foothold in a country with no recent history of union engagement in politics.
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'Labor and Politics in Indonesia offers a sustained and incisive analysis of labour politics in Indonesia since reformasi, demonstrating how sections of the Indonesian labour movement have adapted to the changing broader socio-political environment of the last two decades. It follows, in scrupulous detail, the wins and losses registered by that movement as it seeks to influence the contours of democratisation. The book will likely be considered the definitive work on post-New Order Indonesian labour politics.' Vedi Hadiz, University of Melbourne
