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Vietnamese Labour Militancy: Capital-labour antagonisms and self-organised struggles

Vietnamese Labour Militancy: Capital-labour antagonisms and self-organised struggles

Buckley, Joe

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1032003138
ISBN13: 9781032003139
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 31 2021
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends of worker activism.
Vietnamese labour politics is undergoing significant changes, with a new Labour code that became law in 2021 allowing workers to join 'worker representative organisations' not subordinate to the state-led union or the ruling Communist Party. This book reflects on the nature of Vietnamese labour politics on the cusp of reform. It focuses on nominally formal labour within the garment and footwear industry in the southern part of the country, the author argues that while employment in the formal economy is expanding in terms of the absolute numbers of people working in formally registered firms, capital employs various ways to make conditions inside these companies increasingly insecure. In response, workers organise in forms of decentralised resistance. The book analyses two of these in detail; wildcat strikes and 'microstrikes'--short collective work stoppages that occur inside workplaces.

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