Monthly Archives: October 2014
Accountability regimes
In a new book review at JCA, Warwick University’s Juanita Elias reviews The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies by Garry Rodan and Caroline Hughes. Published by Oxford University Press, the book is advertised as: … Continue reading
Free reading, big downloads
Readers who visit our website might want to click the button “Most Read Articles.” Clicking through tho the papers, readers get a list of 10 articles. Of these, 8 can be freely downloaded. These free papers cover a range of … Continue reading
Reconstructing Industrial Relations in Taiwan’s High-Tech Industries
Chien-Ju Lin of Binghamton University looks at Taiwan’s industrial relations since the democratic transition in 1987. Lin points out that the upturn in workers’ struggles managed to skip the Hsinchu Science Industrial Park. There the high-tech firms established and maintained … Continue reading
On Hong Kong
JCA has published many articles on Hong Kong and its politics over the past several decades. Given recent events, we thought we list a few of these for interested readers: The Politics of the Minimum Wage in Hong Kong Authoritarian … Continue reading
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore
Charanpal S. Bal, who recently completed his PhD at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre, has published his first major journal article with JCA. The article examines the issue of migrant workers in Singapore. Charan’s abstract states: Since 2005, NGO activism, … Continue reading
Toby Carroll on Hong Kong
JCA Editorial Board member Toby Carroll, who is an academic at the City University of Hong Kong, has written an opinion piece at the Jakarta Globe on the protests in Hong Kong. We felt readers would be interested in his … Continue reading
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