Michael Gillan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Gillan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillan |
| SIGNATURE | GILLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Coalition-building as a power resource
Calling multinational enterprises to account
How do civil society organizations (CSOs) use state-backed supranational institutions to call multinational enterprises (MNEs) to account? There are few studies of precisely how CSOs-union and other-use institutional power in global value chain (GVC) governance or the impact of institutional change on actor behaviour. To address this gap, we assess the impact of changes in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on CSO engagement with M…
Beyond the brands
This article analyses the role played by brands, producer‐country governments, and unions in mitigating the impact of disruptions caused to garment supply chains by COVID‐19 in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Its findings challenge brand‐centric accounts, highlighting the need for more serious consideration of the dynamic, relational nature of labor governance—and, in particular, of the role of the state–labor nexus in determining producer‐coun…
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance
Authoritarian states face a fundamental tension in managing labor conflict. Too much repression can be read as a violation of workers' human rights, but too little undermines their structures of control. In this article, we shift focus from the overt repression of workers and unions to consider how states manage labor dissent through governance reform. Using Cambodia as our case, we examine the government's use of a series of “authoritarian innov…
Employment relations, the state and transitions in governance in Myanmar
Myanmar is undergoing a wide-ranging process of reform which in employment relations has allowed for the formation of a nascent labour movement as well as employer organisations and industrial tribunals. The introduction of reformist labour regulation and official tolerance for worker representation should not be interpreted as constituting a turn towards a state where the interests of labour are a priority: the imperative to extend and reform wo…
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar
Privatisation is often contentious yet in Myanmar it has not so much been its merits or drawbacks that have attracted attention as questions around implementation. In Myanmar, the implementation of privatisation has broad significance for the political economy. A first phase of privatisation was focused on small and medium-sized enterprises and did not have a significant economic impact. A second phase, commenced in 2008, consolidated the interes…
Labour Movements and the Age of Crisis
Labour movements, in responding to global crises, are themselves confronted by ‘intersecting contradictions’ related to differing trade union forms and repertoires of action. In India, unions have been shaped in powerful ways by their historic articulation to state and politics. The scope and framing of union action has been somewhat limited. However, trade unions in India are also in a process of transition and are now more various in their form…
Introduction
Revitalising Trade Unions as Civil Society Actors in India
In the past, leading national trade unions in India failed to develop a strong base among unorganised (informal) sector workers and limited their engagement with civil society. Recent initiatives to redress the latter are assessed with reference to the opportunities and constraints that emerge from the organisational structure and ideological and political affiliations of trade unions
"Spaces of Hope"? Fatalism, Trade Unionism, and the Uneven Geography of Capital in White Goods Manufacturing
By engaging the "politics of scale," the discourse of labor geography challenges the fatalism and consequent passivity that pervades much of the labor movement when it is confronted by corporate restructuring. An optimistic view of agency is central to this theoretical intervention. On the basis of empirical research on workers' responses to a transnational corporation's restructuring of a large refrigerator factory in rural Australia, this artic…
Assessing the ‘national’ expansion of Hindu nationalism
Swadeshi politics in a left dominated state
(2001). Swadeshi politics in a left dominated state: The regional response of the BJP to economic liberalisation in West Bengal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Regional responses to global economic changes: West Bengal and Bangladesh, pp. 43-63
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar
Privatisation is often contentious yet in Myanmar it has not so much been its merits or drawbacks that have attracted attention as questions around implementation. In Myanmar, the implementation of privatisation has broad significance for the political economy. A first phase of privatisation was focused on small and medium-sized enterprises and did not have a significant economic impact. A second phase, commenced in 2008, consolidated the interes…
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance
Authoritarian states face a fundamental tension in managing labor conflict. Too much repression can be read as a violation of workers' human rights, but too little undermines their structures of control. In this article, we shift focus from the overt repression of workers and unions to consider how states manage labor dissent through governance reform. Using Cambodia as our case, we examine the government's use of a series of “authoritarian innov…
Employment relations, the state and transitions in governance in Myanmar
Myanmar is undergoing a wide-ranging process of reform which in employment relations has allowed for the formation of a nascent labour movement as well as employer organisations and industrial tribunals. The introduction of reformist labour regulation and official tolerance for worker representation should not be interpreted as constituting a turn towards a state where the interests of labour are a priority: the imperative to extend and reform wo…
Coalition-building as a power resource
Calling multinational enterprises to account
How do civil society organizations (CSOs) use state-backed supranational institutions to call multinational enterprises (MNEs) to account? There are few studies of precisely how CSOs-union and other-use institutional power in global value chain (GVC) governance or the impact of institutional change on actor behaviour. To address this gap, we assess the impact of changes in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on CSO engagement with M…
Labour Movements and the Age of Crisis
Labour movements, in responding to global crises, are themselves confronted by ‘intersecting contradictions’ related to differing trade union forms and repertoires of action. In India, unions have been shaped in powerful ways by their historic articulation to state and politics. The scope and framing of union action has been somewhat limited. However, trade unions in India are also in a process of transition and are now more various in their form…
Revitalising Trade Unions as Civil Society Actors in India
In the past, leading national trade unions in India failed to develop a strong base among unorganised (informal) sector workers and limited their engagement with civil society. Recent initiatives to redress the latter are assessed with reference to the opportunities and constraints that emerge from the organisational structure and ideological and political affiliations of trade unions
"Spaces of Hope"? Fatalism, Trade Unionism, and the Uneven Geography of Capital in White Goods Manufacturing
By engaging the "politics of scale," the discourse of labor geography challenges the fatalism and consequent passivity that pervades much of the labor movement when it is confronted by corporate restructuring. An optimistic view of agency is central to this theoretical intervention. On the basis of empirical research on workers' responses to a transnational corporation's restructuring of a large refrigerator factory in rural Australia, this artic…
Assessing the ‘national’ expansion of Hindu nationalism
Swadeshi politics in a left dominated state
(2001). Swadeshi politics in a left dominated state: The regional response of the BJP to economic liberalisation in West Bengal. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Regional responses to global economic changes: West Bengal and Bangladesh, pp. 43-63
Assessing the ‘national’ expansion of Hindu nationalism
"Spaces of Hope"? Fatalism, Trade Unionism, and the Uneven Geography of Capital in White Goods Manufacturing
By engaging the "politics of scale," the discourse of labor geography challenges the fatalism and consequent passivity that pervades much of the labor movement when it is confronted by corporate restructuring. An optimistic view of agency is central to this theoretical intervention. On the basis of empirical research on workers' responses to a transnational corporation's restructuring of a large refrigerator factory in rural Australia, this artic…
Revitalising Trade Unions as Civil Society Actors in India
In the past, leading national trade unions in India failed to develop a strong base among unorganised (informal) sector workers and limited their engagement with civil society. Recent initiatives to redress the latter are assessed with reference to the opportunities and constraints that emerge from the organisational structure and ideological and political affiliations of trade unions
Labour Movements and the Age of Crisis
Labour movements, in responding to global crises, are themselves confronted by ‘intersecting contradictions’ related to differing trade union forms and repertoires of action. In India, unions have been shaped in powerful ways by their historic articulation to state and politics. The scope and framing of union action has been somewhat limited. However, trade unions in India are also in a process of transition and are now more various in their form…
Introduction
Employment relations, the state and transitions in governance in Myanmar
Myanmar is undergoing a wide-ranging process of reform which in employment relations has allowed for the formation of a nascent labour movement as well as employer organisations and industrial tribunals. The introduction of reformist labour regulation and official tolerance for worker representation should not be interpreted as constituting a turn towards a state where the interests of labour are a priority: the imperative to extend and reform wo…
From Cronyism to Oligarchy? Privatisation and Business Elites in Myanmar
Privatisation is often contentious yet in Myanmar it has not so much been its merits or drawbacks that have attracted attention as questions around implementation. In Myanmar, the implementation of privatisation has broad significance for the political economy. A first phase of privatisation was focused on small and medium-sized enterprises and did not have a significant economic impact. A second phase, commenced in 2008, consolidated the interes…
Authoritarian innovations in labor governance
Authoritarian states face a fundamental tension in managing labor conflict. Too much repression can be read as a violation of workers' human rights, but too little undermines their structures of control. In this article, we shift focus from the overt repression of workers and unions to consider how states manage labor dissent through governance reform. Using Cambodia as our case, we examine the government's use of a series of “authoritarian innov…
Beyond the brands
This article analyses the role played by brands, producer‐country governments, and unions in mitigating the impact of disruptions caused to garment supply chains by COVID‐19 in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Its findings challenge brand‐centric accounts, highlighting the need for more serious consideration of the dynamic, relational nature of labor governance—and, in particular, of the role of the state–labor nexus in determining producer‐coun…
Calling multinational enterprises to account
How do civil society organizations (CSOs) use state-backed supranational institutions to call multinational enterprises (MNEs) to account? There are few studies of precisely how CSOs-union and other-use institutional power in global value chain (GVC) governance or the impact of institutional change on actor behaviour. To address this gap, we assess the impact of changes in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on CSO engagement with M…
Coalition-building as a power resource
Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economic system (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works)