This book focuses on how the state has become entangled in the processes through which workers have been organized, reorganized and disorganized as social and political actors in different historical periods.

Andrew Brown is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.

1. Introduction 2. Monarchs, Workers and Struggles for a Voice 3. The 1932 Coup d' état, Political Volatility and Labour's Fluctuating Fortunes 4. Radicalism, Shifting Alliances and Managing Labour's Political Space 5. Capitalist Expansion, Regime Dynamics and the Rise of Enterprise Unionism 6. EOI, Battles for the State and the Disorganization of Organized Labour 7. Organizing Labour in the 1990s: Crisis and Continuing Struggles for a Political Voice 8. Conclusion