Overview
- Provides insights into social (in)justice in Vietnam as it unfolds in workplace settings
- Demonstrates how law interacts with social norms in shaping Vietnamese workers’ voices and actions
- Contributes to literature on law, resistance and social change through detailed case study analysis of workers’ strikes, letters and legal mobilisation
Part of the book series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific (CSAP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book will be of interest to scholars of law, politics and society, and scholars, students and practitioners interested in labour rights in developing countries.
Reviews
“In this book, workers get to speak for themselves. Drawing on their words, this study shows that underpinning numerous strikes and other resistance in the factories of Vietnam today is a blend of workers’ grievances, their understanding of labor law, and their ideas about justice.” (Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University, Author of Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation)
“In Workplace Justice, Tu Phuong Nguyen shows how law matters to daily struggles and survival in socialist Vietnam. Her empirically grounded research captures the interactions between labour law and factory workers’ sense of morality and ideas about justice, and details how the interactions shape the way workers portray and seek redress for their grievances. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners interested in Vietnam, workers’ rights or legal mobilization.” (Lynette J. Chua, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Author of The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights & Resistance in an Authoritarian State)
"Workplace Justice makes a timely contribution to analyses of how industrial workers’critical awareness of both legal rights and the limitations of the legal system propels individual
and collective action. In addition to its obvious importance to Vietnam specialists, the book will appeal to scholars of law and labor, especially in post-/late/market socialist contexts.
- Ann Marie Leshkowich (College of the Holy Cross), in in the Journal of Asian Studies"
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Workplace Justice
Book Subtitle: Rights and Labour Resistance in Vietnam
Authors: Tu Phuong Nguyen
Series Title: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3116-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3115-2Published: 24 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3116-9Published: 11 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-222X
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 201
Topics: Development and Social Change, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Labour Law/Social Law, Labor Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy