Getting Ready (6) Readings: An article by Angie Ngoc Tran, who teaches at CSU Monterey Bay: Vietnamese Labor-Management Relations: Restructuring and Coping with the Global Economic Crisis. This is from 2009. Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the VGCL in November 2008 demonstrates a changing attitude within the party state and the unions towards theContinue reading “Getting Ready (6)”
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Getting Ready (5)
Getting ready (5) Still asking, what do we have to teach? What do they need us for? What do we know that they need to learn? When Joe and I were first informed of the opportunity to do this, we asked why – what could anyone learn from us? We describe the US industrial relations systemContinue reading “Getting Ready (5)”
Getting ready (4) Comparing Vietnam and China
Getting Ready (4) Vietnam is Not China If all we know about labor in Asia is that Asia is where many “low-wage” countries produce garments, footwear, technology and just about everything else, that’s not enough. Especially, in order to for me to figure out how and what I can teach, I need to understand aContinue reading “Getting ready (4) Comparing Vietnam and China”
Getting ready (3)
A little background: I taught writing, part-time/adjunct, all over the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. I got my first jobs on the basis of having published a couple of novels, but then decided I loved teaching. However, it was “love the work, hate the job,” as they say. The working conditions of contingentContinue reading “Getting ready (3)”
Getting ready (2)
My first post seems to have been posted. We bought tickets yesterday. Vietnam Airlines, $524 one way economy. It’s a 19 hour flight with 2 hours between planes in Taipei. Leg room? Hmmmm….Two checked bags which will be mostly full of books, because they are trying to build their library there. Mailing books is prohibitively expensiveContinue reading “Getting ready (2)”
Getting ready
Joe and I will go to Vietnam in August. We’ll be going to Ho Chi Minh City, which was Saigon. We’re teaching for one semester, about five months. at Ton Duc Thang University, which is a university created by the trade unions, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. Joe will be teaching “Community Mobilization,” whichContinue reading “Getting ready”
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