postdoctoral research fellow

Dr Vicki Crinis

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CAPSTRANS

Qualifications

BA(Hons) (Wollongong University)
PhD (Wollongong University)

Research Programs

Mobility and Exclusion

Research Specialisation

My research focuses on two areas: the garment industry in Malaysia and labour studies including women workers, foreign workers and labour activism in Malaysia. My research interests cover contemporary and historical studies of Malaysian women and work.

Current Research Projects

• Study of the garment industry in Malaysia
• Foreign Workers in the garment and textile industry
• Women and trade unions in Malaysia
• Migrant sex workers in colonial Malaya

Recent Publications

• (2005) ‘The Devil You Know: Malaysian Perceptions of Foreign Workers' Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 91-111
• (2004) ‘Pink-Collared Workers and the Family in Modernising Malaysia: A Case Study of the Garment Industry' in Thang Leng Leng and Wei-Hsin Yu (eds), Women, Work and Family in Changing Asia, Singapore / University of Singapore Press
• (2003) ‘Innovations in Trade Union Approaches in Malaysia's Garment Industry,' Journal of Industrial Relations. 14 (1): 80-89
• (2001) ‘The Stratification of the Garment and Textile Industries and Labour Movements in Malaysia.' in Nicola Piper and Dong Sook Gills (eds) Women and Work in Industrialising Asia, London: Routledge
• (2000) Vicki Crinis, Jan Elliott, Michele Ford and Adrian Vickers with Lyn Fisher, The Garment Industry in the Asia-Pacific: Issues Facing Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia, CEDA Information Paper No. 72. Wollongong: Capstrans

Searchable RIS Publications from 2000 to date

Organisational Affiliations

• International Sociological Association, RC30, RC32, RC48, TG03
• The Asian Studies Association of Australia
• Malaysian Studies Association