Asia Monitor Resource Center's main goal is to support democratic and independent labour movements in Asia. In order to achieve this goal, AMRC upholds the principles of workers' empowerment and gender consciousness, and follows a participatory framework.
AMRC documents aand informs about national social and political situations, and labour; data on wages and employment; trade union profiles; occupational safety and health; transnational corporations; industry-specific data.
The organisation's research includes comparative labour law in Asia-Pacific countries; layoffs in China's SOEs; women workers in Asian Export Processing Zones, the impact of TNC subcontracting on workers; transnational subcontracting and social development; migrant workers in Southern China and the monitoring of working conditions and workers' rights in the sports shoe, garment and toy industries.