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0000-0002-1619-1206
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University of Adelaide
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/LASR.12497
Publisher: Pacific Affairs
Date: 12-2019
DOI: 10.5509/2019924665
Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on precarity in Asia by examining the way in which state law interacts with social, political, and ideological factors in shaping experiences of precarity. Different from studies of precarity that see law as a set of state regulations underpinning the precarious economic and political status of in idual workers, this paper adopts a socially grounded view of law that incorporates workers' understandings of and engagements with state law in commonplace settings. It also adopts a view of precarity as a complex dynamic of social, legal, and political processes shaping and reproducing workers' experiences of insecurity and vulnerability at work, rather than a broad, identity-based category of non-standard and informal types of employment. Through an ethnographic study of former state workers' working experiences in Vietnam, this paper sheds light on different aspects of workers' collective and in idual struggles against precarity and workplace injustice, and the role that law plays in these struggles. It argues that law contributes to reinforcing workers' precarious experiences, which are underpinned by the tension between their expectations grounded in the socialist era and the realities of workplace injustice and insecurity in a market economy.
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-12-2017
DOI: 10.1017/ALS.2017.29
Abstract: This article explores whether and how labour law matters in factory workers’ grievances and demands in their letters sent to the unions and state authorities in Đồng Nai Province, an industrial hub in the south of Vietnam. An examination of the letters demonstrates that the legalistic language of rights and other provisions in the Labour Code plays little role in shaping workers’ accounts. A majority of letter writers instead referred to moral aspects of subsistence, reciprocity, and their subjective views of fairness to make their claims. Yet the moral constructions of workers’ claims may overlap and derive from values imbricated within the Labour Code. These observations raise the need to consider the subtle way in which law generates workers’ resistance against management and/or the state, as well as the fluid boundary between law and morality in workers’ narratives of (in)justice.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 16-10-2017
Abstract: This article examines how labour law contributes to labour resistance in Vietnam through an empirical case study of the ‘core workers’ in Đồng Nai Province. These core workers are factory workers who have undergone legal training and who provide legal aid to factory workers in need. They have, at the same time, deployed their legal knowledge to demand access to justice for themselves and the factory workers. This article demonstrates that the core workers’ legal consciousness is shaped by their mobilization of the law and their own workplace experiences. It then investigates in detail a core worker’s engagements with in idual and collective disputes, and discusses his views on legal aid, labour law, and workplace relationships. This article argues that the core workers’ resistance is not only a fight against illegal practices, but that it also embodies a call for the management’s moral obligations towards its workers.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-11-2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 2021
Abstract: Through a case study of workers’ protests to demand owed wages and social insurance benefits after foreign management had suddenly fled the country, this article discusses the moral and legal dynamics of labor dispute resolution in Vietnam. It examines the local government’s use of extralegal measures, which combine a tactical deployment of the law and moral responsibility, in brokering a resolution. The article argues that these measures, while aimed at addressing the legal challenges of supporting affected workers in the event of these so-called “cicada practices,” are limited in satisfying workers’ demands for justice as workers struggle to claim their legal rights and overcome their precariousness.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-06-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-11-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-12-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/LAPO.12143
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2017
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