%0 Journal Article
%T Ethnicity, popular democratic movements and labour in Malaysia
%A Lilian Miles
%A Richard Croucher
%J Economic and Industrial Democracy
%@ 1461-7099
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0143831X15619237
%X This article uses framing theory to examine how activists and trade unions have framed labour¡¯s political agenda in Malaysia. A polity grounded in ethnicity continues to hinder the formation of cross-ethnic collective worker identities and labour politics. However, inclusive popular democratising movements have strengthened in recent years, providing a favourable context for greater emphasis on non-ethnic political action by trade unions. The latter have shifted in this direction, adopting elements of the popular movement¡¯s ¡®human rights¡¯ internationalism. Thus, the democratic movement¡¯s frame has influenced that of the trade unions, with implications for framing theory
%K Employee rights
%K industrial democracy
%K labour relations
%K worker control
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0143831X15619237