The major purpose of this book is to review our strategy in controlling capital and identify conditions on which the labour movement can develop an effective challenge to destructive aspects of Asian Transnational corporations. It explores the underlying problem of foreign direct investment in Asia. FDI is presented problematic not only because it undermines autonomy of national development in developing countries but also, more fundamentally, because FDI is a particular form through which anti-labour development goes to extreme. Therefore, a strategy of FDI control must involve workers and be geared toward challenging anti-labour economic development in both South and North. The most important implication may be about a concrete strategy through which organising labour can be a very effective method to control global capital flow that undermines sustainable social development. We hope that the information and experiences presented in this book will help labour organisations in Asia to develop the way in which solidarity within and between the North and the South can effectively tame the flow of capital and moreover challenge the nature of the development by organising pressures in and against commercial and productive transnational corporations that develop at the expense of human labour.

Content

Part 1: Trend and Nature of Asian Foreign Investment
1. Asian TNCs, workers and the movement of capital - Dae-oup Chang
2. Japan's recent foreign direct investment: specifically in the manufacturing sector in Asia - Kaneko Fumio
3. The present condition and characteristics of Korea's foreign investment - Yoon Hyowon
4. FDI inwards and outwards: Taiwan - Ching-Jen Labor Health & Safety Service Center
5. The role of HOng Kong capital in globalised capitalism - Monina Wong

Part 2: FDI and Labour in Asian Countries
6. FDI and Labour in China : The actors and possibility of a new working class activism - Dae-oup Chang and Monina Wong
7. FDI trends and labour in INdia - Krishna Shekhar Lal Das
8. Attracting FDI through the spread of free trade agreements: Unravelling the rationale and impact on labour conditions in ASEAN - Dennis Arnold

Part 3: Workers in and against Asian TNCs
9. A preliminary study on the gender struggle of women workers in factories in the Philippines' Cavite Economic Zone - Workers' Assistance Center Inc
10. Korean foreign direct investment : Its tendency and treatment towards workers in Indonesia - Sedane Institute for Labour Information (LIPS) and Wahyu Sosial Foundation (YAWAS)
11. The situation of Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot Thailand - Dennis Arnold
12. Response of the Korean government to Korean companies abroad - Serapina Cha Mi-kyung
13. International solidarity against runaway factories : On labour's tri-continental linkage in Tainan Enterprise Campaign - Ching-Jen Health & Safety Service Center