The Workshop on Subcontracting Labour in Asia: Historical and Global Perspectives
will be held from 22 to 24 November 1999 at the Chulalongkorn University
Social Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand.
| Monday, 22 November 1999 |
| Morning session: Conceptual Issues |
| 09.00 - 09.20 |
Introductions : Jan Lucassen and Ratna Saptari |
| 09.20 - 09.50 |
Fred Deyo : Constructing Subcontract Labour: A Labour
Systems Approach to Asian Supplier Chains |
| 09.50 - 10.20 |
Alec Gordon : From Colonial Indentured Labourers to
Smallholdres Natural Rubber in Southeast Asia |
| 10.20 - 10.50 |
Piyaseri Wickramasekara : Forms of Labour Subcontracting
and Employment in Asia |
| 10.50 - 11.20 |
Heidi Dahles : Subcontracting: a Viable Business Strategy
in Asia's 'Growth Triangles'? |
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Coffee Break |
| 11.20 - 11.40 |
Discussant (Lae Dhilokvidyarat) |
| 11.40 - 12.30 |
Plenary |
| 12.30 - 14.00 |
LUNCH |
| Afternoon Session : Historical Development : Early Period - 1940s
|
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Ravi Ahuja : Subcontractors in Early Colonial South
Asia: The Case of the Madras Maistries |
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
Irene Norlund : From Domestic Production to Extended
Domestic Production in Colonial Vietnam 1900 - 1940 |
| 15.00 - 15. 30 |
Jan Lucassen : Subcontracting in brick-work industry
in early modern Europe and modern India |
| 15.30 - 15.50 |
Discussant (Alec Gordon) |
| 15.50 - 16.30 |
Plenary |
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| Tuesday, 23 November 1999 |
| Morning Session. Labour Process and Labour Markets: 1970s until now.
|
| 09.00 - 09.30 |
Sietze Vellema : Contract Growing: Corporate Strategy,
Growers and Farm Workers |
| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Roli Talampas : Philippine Guerilla Capitalism: Subcontracting
in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Isabelle Vagneron : How can the Situation on the Domestic
Labour Market Shape Subcontracting Arrangements? Evidence From the
Garment Sector in Thailand |
| 10.30 - 10.50 |
Discussant (Irene Norlund) |
| 10.50 - 11.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11.00 - 12.00 |
Plenary |
| 12. 00 - 14.00 |
LUNCH |
| Afternoon session. Labour Process, Gender and Households |
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Neetha N. Pillai : Gender Dimensions of Subcontracting:
A Study of Tirupur Knitwear Industry in South India, 1925 - 1990s
|
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
Ratna Saptari : Skill and Gender in Indonesian Subcontracting:
early 20th century to the present |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Indrasari Tjandraningsih : Subcontracting and Feminization
of Labour: Indonesia in the Current Crisis |
| 15.30 - 16.00 |
Rajeev Sharma : Subcontractual work and the incidence
of child labour in India |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Discussant (Napat Sirisambhand) |
| 16.20 - 17.15 |
Plenary |
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| Wednesday, 24 November 1999 |
| Morning session. Contemporary Developments in Subcontracting
|
| 09.00 - 09.30 |
Insoo Jeong : Aspects of Subcontracting and Policy
Implications for Labour Relations in Korea |
| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Napat Sirimsambhand :The Environment of Subcontracted
Seed Prodcers in Thailand: a Case Study |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Erwan Agus Purwanto : Subcontracting Labour in the
Time of Crisis: A Case Study of Garment Workers in Central Java,
Indonesia |
| 10.30 - 10.50 |
Discussant (Ravi Ahuja) |
| 10.50 - 11.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 12.00 |
Plenary |
| 12.00 - 13.30 |
LUNCH |
| Afternoon Session. Political Aspects |
| 13.30 - 14.00 |
Lae Dilokvidhiyarat : Contract labour and the Thai
Trade Unions |
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Rakawin Leechanavanichpan : The Situation of Contract
Workers Following the Crisis |
| 14.40 - 15.00 |
Discussant (Neetha N. Pillai) |
| 15.00 - 16.00 |
Plenary |
| 16.00 - 16.30 |
Conclusions and Closing Remarks |