LABOUR IN ASIA WORKSHOP.
Venue: IISH, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam. Coordination: IISH (Ratna Saptari)

Speakers:
Raj Chandavarkar,Trinity College, Cambridge University: Approaches to Labour Historiography
Jan Breman, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, Amsterdam: Informalization of Labour
Miranda Engelshoven, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Amsterdam: Labour in the Diamond Industry, India
Cen Huang, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden: Transnationalism and Labour in China
Peter Keppy,Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, Amsterdam: Labour Activism in the 1930s in Java, Indonesia
Rosanne Rutten, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research , Amsterdam: Claim-making and labor rights in a Philippine Plantation Region.

June 25-28, 1998

PANEL : " CHANGING LABOUR RELATIONS IN INDUSTRIALIZING ASIA" 
International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Coordination : IISH (R. Saptari)
Venue: Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.

This panel aims to look at labour vis-a-vis state and capital in different Asian countries paying attention to their similarities and differences, their universalities and specificities. How do state and capital differ and/or collude in their position towards labour ? How have different labour processes shaped the different categories of labour and how have these in turn influenced their responses? How do relations of production constitute and are constituted by social constructions of gender, ethnicity, age, as well as class and how do they change?

Speakers:
Amritta Chhachhi, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague :Contesting Skill and Docility: Women Workers in the Electronics Industry in India;
Karin Kapadia, International Institute for Asian Studies, Amsterdam: Creating Women Workers: State Policies And Rural Industrialization In India Today;
Rajeev Sharma, Jawaharlal Nehru University: Child Labour In The Glass Bangle Industry of Firozabad;
Ratna Saptari,International Institute of Social History: Conceptualizing the "Public" and "Private" in Workers'Politics in East Java, Indonesia;
Sylvia Tiwon, University of California, Berkeley, Women s Consciousness and Identities in Industrial Indonesia.

September 3-6, 1998

PANEL : 'CHANGING LABOUR RELATIONS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA'
European Association for South-East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), Hamburg.
Convenors:Dr. Ratna Saptari and Prof. Willem van Schendel, International Institute of Social History.

Paul and Jenifer Alexander, Anthropology Dep., Univ. of Sydney, Re-inventing Household Production: Changing Labour Relations in Java's Export Furniture Industry;
Irene Norlund Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Labour in Vietnam;
Amarjit Kaur, Department of Economic History, University of New England, Miners and Coolies: Plantation and Mining Labour Systems in Southeast Asia, 1840 to 1940;
Eduardo T. Gonzalez , Development Academy of the Philippines, Has Globalization Left Its Mark On Governance Structures and Institutions in Employer-Employee Relations in the Philippines ?;
Jonathan Rigg, Durham University, United Kingdom, Labour Relations in Agriculture in Southeast Asia: Rural-Urban Interactions, Mechanization and Household Relations;
Ratna Saptari, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Gender, The Labour Process and Workers' Politics in Indonesia;
Rolando G. Talampas, Dep. of Social Sciences College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines, The Internationalization of Filipino Maritime Labour;
Benjamin White, Institute of Social Studies, Children and Work in Southeast Asia; Peter Wad, DICM, CBS, Enterprise Unions, Industrial Restructuring And Dynamic Efficiency: The Case Of Malaysia;
Rebecca Elmhirst, University of Brighton, Gender, Culture and Space : A Political Geography of Labour Recruitment in an Indonesian Textile Factory;
Xavier Oudin, ORSTOM,Labour Mobility in Vietnam since the Economic Reform;
Daniel Arghiros, University of Hull: Mutual Obligation and Work: Changing Labour Relations in Provincial Thai Industrial Enterprises

December 3-4, 1998

Women Workers in Industrializing Asia.
Convenor: Prof. Amarjit Kaur, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

To what extent are gender-based assumptions shaped or mediated by political and economic forces, which in turn are driven by the politics of legitimacy and the (economic) need to obtain profits? To what extent do these assumptions change as a result of the political and economic exigencies which interact with the nature of local labour markets and the 'traditional' forms of labour division?
This conference aims to build a comparative understanding of labour relations through comparable data , including information about labour force participation rates in a historical perspective, women's occupational and industrial distribution , women's earnings relative to men's, and labour market regulation in three regions in Asia -- East Asia, South Asia And Southeast Asia.

Speakers:
Amarjit Kaur,University of New England, Australia: The commonalities of gendered experiences during economic development;
Leslie O'Brien, Dept. of Industry and Science, Australian National University, Australia: Industrialisation in Asia South Asia;
Howard Brasted , University of New England, Australia: Industrialisation and the changing role of women in India;
Samita Sen, Calcutta University, India: Women in manufacturing in India- a sectoral Study;
Denis Wright, University of New England, Australia: Industrialisation and the changing role of women in Bangladesh;
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Dhaka University, Bangladesh: Women in Manufacturing in Bangladesh - a sectoral study;
Tessa Morris- Suzuki, Australian National University, Australia: Industrialisation and Women in East Asia;
Xin Meng, Australian National University, Australia: Industrialisation and Women's Economic Participation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea - General and Sectoral comparisons;
Kunio Hisano and Yuji Endo, Kyushu University, Japan: Industrialisation and Women's Economic Participation in Japan;
Amarjit Kaur, University of New England, Australia: Industrialisation and the Nature of Labour Relations in Malaysia and Singapore;
Lai Ah Eng, Institute for South East Asian Studies, Singapore: Women and Industrialisation in Singapore;
Loh Lee Lee, University Of Malaya, Malaysia: Women in the sub-contracting sector in Malaysia;
Ratna Saptari, International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands: Women and Industrialisation in Indonesia;
Juni Thamrin and Indrasari Tjandraningsih, AKATIGA, Indonesia: Women and industrialization in Indonesia;
Malcolm Falkus, University of New England, Australia: Explaining the female work force: women in Manufacturing during industrialisation in Thailand;
Pawadee Thonguthai, Thammast University, Thailand: Women's Employment and conditions in small and medium -sized establishments in the food, drink and tobacco industries;
Myat Mon, Assumption University, Thailand And University of New England, Australia: Women's Economic participation in Burma.

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