%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