Brand name manufacturers and corporate social responsibility in the garment industry in Malaysia
RIS ID
74197
Additional Publication Information
Rapid globalization, coupled with economic liberalization and financial deregulation, has opened-up the economics of the Asia Pacific region. Increasing wealth generation is heralded as a sign of great personal and notional success, while large numbers of people remain marginalised in poor paying a insecure jobs. Youth are under extreme pressures in terms of successful education and gaining secure employment. The media glorifies the consumer revolution, and we see increasing use of new technologies which are changing forever the very fabric of work, family life, health and culture in the countries of the Asia Pacific. The region is seemingly now more integrated, with unprecedented levels of tourism, migration, and economic and cultural linkages. But, are the nations of the region, and their populations, becoming more divided, united or are they fundamentally unchanged over the past two decades? This conference aims to explore the various dimensions of the rapid social transfo rmation of the Asia Pacific.
Publication Details
Crinis, V. D. (2007). 'Brand name manufacturers and corporate social responsibility in the garment industry in Malaysia', Societies in Transformation: The 8th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association- 19-22 November, Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Penang, Malaysia (p. 1). Malaysia: APSA.