Labor and Politics in Indonesia

Caraway, Teri L.; Ford, Michele

doi:10.1017/9781108777858

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“…In both countries, unions have increasingly engaged as political actors, challenging their respective governments through street-based demonstrations but also at the ballot box. In both countries, too, governments have responded to the increasing visibility and influence of organised labour by actively reducing the operating space available to unions (Caraway and Ford, 2020;Ward and Ford, in press).…”

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“…The passage of this legislation was a major blow to organised labour, which had managed to leverage space created by the twin processes of democratisation and decentralisation to chalk up remarkable successes in the policy arena and in relation to wage-setting in the post-Suharto period (Caraway and Ford, 2020). However, it was by no means the first effort to contain them.…”

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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions

Ford

Ward

2021

Journal of Industrial Relations

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The labour market effects in Southeast Asia of the COVID-19 pandemic have attracted considerable analysis from both scholars and practitioners. However, much less attention has been paid to the pandemic’s impact on legal protections for workers’ and unions’ rights, or to what might account for divergent outcomes in this respect in economies that share many characteristics, including a strong export orientation in labour-intensive industries and weak industrial relations institutions. Having described the public health measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam, this article analyses governments’ employment-related responses and their impact on workers and unions in the first year of the pandemic. Based on this analysis, we conclude that the disruption caused to these countries’ economies, and societies, served to reproduce existing patterns of state–labour relations rather than overturning them.

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COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions

Ford

Ward

2021

Journal of Industrial Relations

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“…This finding speaks to the need for a relational conceptualization of the state in GVC/GPN labor governance . States are socio‐relational sites of contestation and shifting power relations, and workers acting collectively can win concessions even when their influence in the workplace is relatively low (Caraway & Ford, 2020; Marslev et al, 2022). It was this potential that drove unions' decision to target their governments, rather than brands, during the pandemic.…”

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Beyond the brands: COVID‐19, supply chain governance, and the state–labor nexus

Ford

Gillan

Ward

2022

Industrial Relations

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This article analyses the role played by brands, producer‐country governments, and unions in mitigating the impact of disruptions caused to garment supply chains by COVID‐19 in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Its findings challenge brand‐centric accounts, highlighting the need for more serious consideration of the dynamic, relational nature of labor governance—and, in particular, of the role of the state–labor nexus in determining producer‐country unions' ability to exercise strategic agency within global supply chains.

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“…Concurrently, interest groups also mushroomedlabour unions and professional associations enjoyed their new freedoms after long periods of tight regulation and control during previous authoritarian regimes. Indeed, their problem soon became excessive fragmentation rather than repression (Caraway and Ford 2020).…”

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Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia

Mietzner

2021

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Since the mid-2000s, the quality of democracy around the world has been in decline, and Southeast Asia is no exception. This Element analyzes the extent, patterns and drivers of democratic deconsolidation in the three Southeast Asian countries that boast the longest history of electoral democracy in the region: Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. While the exact deconsolidation outcomes differ, all three nations have witnessed similar trends of democratic erosion. In each case, long-standing democratic deficiencies (such as clientelism, politicized security forces and non-democratic enclaves) have persisted; rising wealth inequality has triggered political oligarchization and subsequent populist responses embedded in identity politics; and ambitious middle classes have opted for non-democratic alternatives to safeguard their material advancement. As a result, all three polities have descended from their democratic peaks between the late 1980s and early 2000s, with few signs pointing to a return to previous democratization paths.

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Labor and Politics in Indonesia

Cited by 64 publications

References 95 publications

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions

Beyond the brands: COVID‐19, supply chain governance, and the state–labor nexus

Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia

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