* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


28 October 2008

China Labour Bulletin (CLB)

http://www.clb.org.hk/en/

5star
28 Oct 2008

China Labour Bulletin, Hong Kong, China

Self-description:
"Founded in 1994 by labour activist Han Dongfang, China Labour Bulletin has grown from a small monitoring and research group into a proactive outreach organization that seeks to defend and promote workers rights in the People's Republic of China. We are a non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong and have extensive links and cooperation with labour groups and law firms within China, as well as with the international labour movement. We support the development of democratic trade unions, respect for and enforcement of the country's labour laws, and the full participation of workers in the creation of civil society."

Site contents:
* Labour Rights Litigation; * Workers' Representation and Collective Contracts;
* English Language Reports:
(# No Way Out: Worker Activism in China's State-Owned Enterprise Reforms (Sep 2008) # Bone and Blood: The Price of Coal in China (Mar 2008), # Speaking Out: The Workers' Movement in China, 2005-2006 (Dec 2007), # Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process (Nov 2007), # Small Hands: A Survey Report on Child Labour in China (Sep 2007), # Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China (Sep 2006), # Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic among Guangdong Jewellery Workers (Dec 2005), # The Liaoyang Workers' Struggle: Portrait of a Movement (July 2003), # Public Interest Litigation in China: A New Force for Social Justice (Oct 2007), # Help or Hindrance to Workers: China's Institutions of Public Redress (April 2008)).
* Chinese Language Reports:
(# Operating Outside the Law: The Labour Contract Law and the role the Trade Unions, # No Legal Recourse: Why collective labour protests lead to conflict with the law, # Help or Hindrance: An analysis of public protection procedures in three occupational injury cases, # Breaking the Impasse: Promoting Worker Involvement in the Collective Bargaining and Contracts Process, # Speaking Out: The Workers Movement in China, 2005-2006, # Putting People First: A Critique of China's Compensation System for Bereaved Coalminers' Families, # Small Hands: Survey Report on Child Labour in China, # Bloody Coal: An Appraisal of China's Coalmine Safety Management System, # Deadly Dust: The Silicosis Epidemic in the Guangdong Jewellery Processing Industry, # Standing Up: The Workers Movement in China, 2000-2004, # Falling Through the Floor: Migrant Women Workers' Quest for Decent Work in Dongguan, China, # Occupational Health and Safety in China - Labour Rights Lose Out to Government and Business, # Conflicts of Interest and the Ineffectiveness of China's Labour Laws);
* Imprisoned Workers; * Resource Centre [PDF files] (# Migrant workers in China, # Children of migrant workers, # Reform of state-owned enterprises, # Unemployment, # Wages, # Compensation); * Press Centre; * News, Analysis and Featured Articles; * CLB In The News; * Workers' Voices; * Links (Organizations and Unions, Labour Blogs and Links, China Blogs and Links, Campaigns);
* Who We Are; * What We Do; * What You Can Do; * RSS; * Blog; * Donate; * Contact Us; * Search.

URL http://www.clb.org.hk/en/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com