MICHAEL GILLAN is an Associate Professor of Employment relations, Department of Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, at the University of Western Australia. His current research interests encompass global union federations; transnational labour regulation; and state governance and labour movements in Asia. He is engaged in a multi-year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant project on Global Production Networks and worker representation in Myanmar. He is the former President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia (SASAA).