Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common …
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Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common …
"Investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia, particularly the region's developing countries. Providing a number of important case studies covering South Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia, Indonesia and Japan."--Prov…
"This book draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries - two low-income (India and Pakistan) and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) - where subcontracted production, usually by women and children working out of home, is now widespread. Home-ba…
This is a thoroughly researched volume, edited by key specialists in the field, along with an impressive team of contributors, that surveys the nature and extent of informal home work in Asia; examining and arguing for protection of the workers who are ex.
This book is a wide-ranging survey of the nature and extent of home work in Asia. When industrialization increased pace in the region after decolonization, there was an expectation that the process would result in most of the labor force being employed in formal sector industria…
"This book draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries - two low-income (India and Pakistan) and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) - where subcontracted production, usually by women and children working out of home, is now widespread. Home-ba…
"This book draws on surveys carried out in five Asian countries - two low-income (India and Pakistan) and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines) - where subcontracted production, usually by women and children working out of home, is now widespread. Home-ba…