Buku ini membedah citra penyelamat lingkungan dan pengentas kemiskinan dari perusahaan transnasional. Disamping itu, mendorong pola-pola penguatan masyarakat untuk melawan tindakan-tindakan destruktif dari perusahaan transnasional dan berjuang untuk mengembalikan penguasaan atas lingkungan dan makna kehidupan masyarakat itu sendiri.
This volume is an original work reflecting the importance and novetly of the ASEAN Economic Community arrangements, as their implications for Asia-Pacific integration more broadly and for alternative regional cooperation proposal. The summary of chapters, under the three part headings for ease reference is provided here. Part I : ASEAN Economic integration in the context of East Asian Regio…
This book discusses the history of human bondage and slavery in Southeast Asia. It contains six chapters explaining memories and remnants of slavery, serfdom and peonage, debt bondage, compulsory public service, labor relations in modern enterprise, including appendices of historical forms of human bondages in Siam, slavery and debt bondage in Sarawak a hundred years ago, bondage through worke…
Many late developing countries face tremendous challenges. They have to deal simultaneously with their economic and demographic transitions in the context of globalization and under the constraints of climate change. Based on new evidence from an in-depth survey that included 8.000 rural households in 7 developing countries, structural transformation and rural change revisited addresses the uni…