Globalization and Labour: A Case Study of EPZ Workers in Malaysia

Donella Caspersz
Additional contact information
Donella Caspersz: University of Western Australia

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1998, vol. 19, issue 2, 253-286

Abstract: Like many Asian states, Malaysia has used export processing zones (EPZs) as a strategy to promote economic development. It has been found that the role of the state in labour-management relations and the type of worker employed in EPZs are critical variables which affect the state's capability to maximize the economic potential of EPZs. This article analyses the impact that these variables have also had on the ability of EPZ workers to organize freely and bargain collectively. As a result it is proposed that the theoretical framework contextualizing this analysis has to extend beyond class and include a perspective which assesses how the private interests of workers as well as class affect EPZ labour. The private interests referred to here are ethnicity, gender and nationalism.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X98192003 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:19:y:1998:i:2:p:253-286

DOI: 10.1177/0143831X98192003

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic and Industrial Democracy from Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().