Workers and Intellectuals
NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement.
Singapore. National University of Singapore. 2009. Stock ID #129665 After decades of repression, Indonesia's independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s led by the NGO activists and students who organised industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998 when Suharto's authoritarian regime crumbled and labour NGO activists and their organizations continued to play an influential - and often controversial - part in the reconstruction of the labour movement. When referring to this item please quote stockid 129665.
x + 272pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, paperback. ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series.
Workers and Intellectuals explores how middle-class activists struggle to define their place in a movement shaped by more than a century of fierce debate about the role of non-worker intellectuals. Drawing on extensive interviews, this book documents the resurgence of labour activism and explains how activists and workers perceived the position of NGOs in relation to workers and trade unions. This fine-grained study of labour organizing in a developing country speaks simultaneously to local and global questions and is important for scholars of labour history, politics and sociology as well as specialists working on Indonesia.
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