is researcher with the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. She is coordinator of the research programme 'Changing Labour Relations in Asia' at the same institute. Her present research is aimed at the cigarette industry, trade unions and the social movement in Indonesia. Her articles have been published in anthologies and in various magazine and journals. She is co-editor of The Household and Beyond: Cultural Notions and Social Practices in the Study of Gender in Indonesia, Curzon Press-NIAS (1999) and of Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalized World (in preparation). At the moment she is working on a book about the labour communities of the cigarette industry in East Java.