As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes:

a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference
comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations
comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle
China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism.