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Report on Standards in the Asia-Pacific Region. (book reviews)

By McFarlane, B.
Publication: Journal of Contemporary Asia
Date: Thursday, May 1 1997

In December 1994 the Australian Minister for Trade established a Tripartite Committee to report on case labour standards in the Asia-Pacific region, and the contribution Australia could make to improve living standard in the region.

The volume covers, in a most stimulating way, the issues that political economy suggests are relevant, and politics suggest are urgent in shaping the condition of the working class of Asia up to the end of this century. Among these problems I would include, not only minimum wages (which are still not being paid in Thailand, Philippines and Indo

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