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Indonesia's weak labor movement transformed local wage councils from institutions of wage restraint into institutions that delivered generous wage increases. This article argues that the arrival of direct elections created an opportunity for unions to leverage elections to alter the balance of power on the wage councils. Activating that leverage required increased contentiousness and coordination among unions. As unions mobilized around wages, conflict with capital intensified and produced disruptive protests that led incumbents to side with workers. Unions also developed innovative tactics to sustain momentum in nonelection years. As unions turned the wage councils in their favor, employers fought back by shifting the scale of the conflict to the national level; the result was the recentralization of wage setting and more modest increases. In a global context of ever weakening organized labor, the Indonesian case shows how weak unions can gain power by mobilizing politically at the local level.

Work/care regimes in the asia-pacific : a feminist framework -- Familial/informal care regimes -- China : the reconfiguring of women, work and care -- Malaysia : balancing paid and unpaid work -- Singapore : contradictions in the work/care regime -- Indonesia : middle-class complicity and state failure to provide care -- The Philippines : pressures for change in the work/care regime -- Cambodia : managing work and care in a post-conflict context -- Bangladesh : class, precarity and the politics of care -- India : economic inequality and social reproduction -- Sri Lanka : working realities and gendered fictions -- Familial/formal care regimes -- Australia : the care challenge -- New Zealand : caring for women or women caring? -- Predominantly familial care regimes -- Japan : from social reproduction to gender equality -- South Korea : work, care and the wollstonecraft dilemma -- Timor-Leste : mixed messages on work and care -- Papua New Guinea : work and care in a subsistence economy

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state, with more than 18,000 islands and over 7.9 million square kilometres of sea. The marine frontier presents the nation with both economic opportunities and political and strategic challenges.Indonesia has been affected more than most countries in the world by a slow revolution in the management of its waters. Whereas Indonesia's seas were once conceived administratively as little more than the empty space between islands, successive governments have become aware that this view is outmoded. The effective transfer to the seas of regulatory regimes that took shape on land, such as territoriality, has been an enduring challenge to Indonesian governments.This book addresses issues related to maritime boundaries and security, marine safety, inter-island shipping, the development of the archipelagic concept in international law, marine conservation, illegal fishing, and the place of the sea in national and regional identity

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising. This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes

La pandemia del coronavirus ha dejado el mundo en suspenso en 2020. Nuestras vidas y rutinas se han visto trastocadas. La incertidumbre se convirtió en regla. A la gravedad de la crisis sanitaria, se suma la urgencia de afrontar los retrocesos democráticos y de derechos, la emergencia climática, la crisis ecosocial, las asimetrías globales y las profundas desigualdades. Frente al momento dramático de nuestra humanidad, los pasos que demos podrán ser decisivos. El futuro está en disputa y los escenarios posibles son múltiples. Alerta global reunió los análisis de 48 autoras y autores de 28 países y de todos los continentes para discutir las múltiples implicaciones sociopolíticas de la pandemia. En sus páginas hay una mirada global sobre la crisis actual y el mundo contemporáneo, la forma en la que se exacerban las desigualdades y se diversifican las formas de control social, pero también sobre cómo se abren nuevas solidaridades, movimientos sociales, vías para renovar el pensamiento crítico y posibilidades de otros mundos posibles.