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Today, we are launching the Asian Labour School, a sister project of ALR, to build a platform for labour education and strengthen our movement infrastructure. It is for anyone interested in becoming more effective organisers, or expanding knowledge of Asian labour movements.
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Finally, Chhim Sithar has been released, having been detailed and jailed since November 2022. She should never have been in jail for one single day for leading NagaWorld workers in struggles for over 10 years.
Noan Sereiboth​ 
@noansereiboth16 Sep 2024
Labor Rights Supported Union leader Chhim Sithar was released this morning after completing her prison term.
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We would like to share a fantastic online labour history course through the Global Labour University, and co-led by one of our board members, Tim Pringle, at SOAS. glu.iversity.org/en/courses/… @GLU_Network
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Including sessions on Why Does Labour Organise?: A Historical Perspective, Labour Movements' Struggle for Democracy: Achievements and Tensions, Labour and the Migration Question: What Does History Teach Us? Labour Movements and Other Social Movements: Collaborations and Tensions.
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"By analysing historical examples of labour's response to questions of democracy, dictatorships, authoritarianism, migration, capitalist crises and others, the online course creates spaces for open debates about the labour movement today."
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Enrollment is now CLOSED for the Sept-Nov 2024 Semester, as all classes are now filled. Thanks for everyone's support! We are overwhelmed by all the interest in our courses. If you have registered, you will be hearing from us soon.
Asian Labour Review@asianlabour20 Aug 2024
Today, we are launching the Asian Labour School, a sister project of ALR, to build a platform for labour education and strengthen our movement infrastructure. It is for anyone interested in becoming more effective organisers, or expanding knowledge of Asian labour movements.
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We must shift the balance of power to workers through bottom-up, radically democratic, militant practices & calling on workers' intelligence and collective participation. Learn from Ellen David Friedman's 50 years of labor organizing & education experience.labourschool.org/secrets-of-…

Secrets of Successful Organisers

The course will crystallize lessons from 50 years in labour movements based on the Freirean principles of popular education.

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Steward’s Corner: 'There Aren’t Enough of Us’

It’s a common situation: there’s too much union work to do, and not enough people doing it. And the ill effects are serious. Carrying too much work puts a lot of pressure on you, and you’re liable to

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How to Keep On Keeping On

Even asking the questions is exhausting. Who’s making the Covid decisions, and why do they change every day? How has the workload doubled? What about the new extremes of micro-management? Which of my

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Steward’s Corner: Taking Bottom-Up Action Changes the Balance of Power

Consider two different ways a union can take action to solve problems. A top-down approach may solve the immediate workplace problem, but it may not change the balance of power. Engaging as many

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We are grateful for all the interest. “Labour, Power and Strategies” and "Workers Struggle across Asia" have already been filled up. A few final slots are available for “Writing Workers Stories”, and "Secrets of Successful Organisers". Register soon if you're interested!
Asian Labour Review@asianlabour20 Aug 2024
Today, we are launching the Asian Labour School, a sister project of ALR, to build a platform for labour education and strengthen our movement infrastructure. It is for anyone interested in becoming more effective organisers, or expanding knowledge of Asian labour movements.
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Tempest 🌪@tempest_mag13 Aug 2024
This spring, we worked with @breadrosesDSA on an series on labor in China, featuring overseas Chinese activists who provide introductory talks on the state of Chinese labor for the left outside of China. Transcripts are now published @NewPoliticsMag: newpol.org/symposium/special…

Special Section on Labor in China - New Politics

These contributions look at the general conditions of Chinese workers; the situation of women workers; a case study of Foxconn; the Chinese and Israeli surveillance states; and a discussion of...

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Been building a collection of Chinese labor materials, it's taken eight years and we have tens of thousands of items. It's the only archive of its kind in the world. Kevin Lin and I pulled some items to launch the collection and generate discussion. Many good events, c'mon by!
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If you are curious about the transformation of the Chinese working class and workers’ struggles in the last thirty years, please join us at this unique exhibition on Sept 21-29, 2024, in Brooklyn, NYC, featuring China labor collections from Kheel Center at Cornell University.
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RSVP to register and receive program updates: partiful.com/e/dPXe4CgTj5Jgh…

Keywords of Chinese Labor: An Exhibition | Partiful

The full exhibition event program is now available with daily conversations, guided tours, documentary screening, and collective poetry reading: https://tinyurl.com/keywordsfullprogram We are...

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Dear friends, thanks so all the support We are really excited it’s been getting a lot of interest. As a result, some of the courses are almost filled up. If you are interested in taking any of the courses, please consider registering soon!
Asian Labour Review@asianlabour20 Aug 2024
Today, we are launching the Asian Labour School, a sister project of ALR, to build a platform for labour education and strengthen our movement infrastructure. It is for anyone interested in becoming more effective organisers, or expanding knowledge of Asian labour movements.
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In the Sept-Nov 2024 semester, we will be offering 4 online courses: “Writing Workers Stories: Introduction to Labour Journalism”, “Labour, Power and Strategies”, "Secrets of Successful Organisers" and "Workers Struggle across Asia in the 21st Century". Registration is now open!
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Our hope is to cultivate a new generation of workers, activists and students to revitalise mass, democratic and radical labour movements in Asia. For course descriptions and registration info: labourschool.org/

Asian Labour School

for workers, organisers and students

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CIVICUS Monitor
@CIVICUSMonitor28 Jun 2024
🇰🇷 #SouthKorea: The government must ensure that #tradeunions are not subjected to stigmatisation, interference and judicial harassment & instead foster an enabling environment for the exercise of their right to freedom of association Read our brief here: web.civicus.org/SouthKoreaBr…
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The idea that as economies grow formal employment will increase has proved wrong, while highly formalized economies are also shifting towards informalization. @z_majoka reviews the promise and predicament of formalizing work for women in the Global South. labourreview.org/labor-forma…

The Promise and Predicament of Labor Formalization for Women

Book Review: Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalization of Women’s Employment in Developing Economies, edited by Jayati Ghosh (Routledge 2021) Informal...

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