Plantation labour, unions, capital, and the state in Peninsular Malaysia /
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| Author / Creator: | Ramasamy, P. (Palanisamy), 1949- |
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| Imprint: | Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | xvi, 193 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | South-East Asian social science monographs |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1571334 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction. Survey of the Literature. The Debate on the State. The Theory of Merchant Capital
- 2. The Formation of the Plantation System. The Beginnings of Plantation Agriculture. The Rubber Plantation Industry. The Role of the Colonial State. The Organization of Plantation Capital. The Formation of the Plantation Proletariat. Mass Recruitment of Indian Labour
- 3. Pre-war Labour Relations in the Plantations. The Wage Structure. Extra-economic Coercion. Indian Labour Resistance. The Struggles of the 1930s and 1940s. The Politics of Indian Labour. The Klang Strikes, February-May 1941. Chinese Labour. The Politics of Chinese Labour. The Ulu Langat District Strikes, March 1937. The Aftermath of the Strikes
- 4. The Labour Struggle, 1945-1948. The Background. Unrest in the Plantations. Left-wing Labour Unions. The Struggle. The All Malayan Rubber Workers Council. The General Strike of 25 August 1947. The Failure of the Labour Struggle
- 5. Moderate Trade Unionism. The Beginnings of Moderate Trade Unionism. The Formation of the NUPW. The NUPW and Plantation Labour: Towards Collective Bargaining. Workers' Welfare and Industrial Relations. The Seremban Estate Labour Dispute
- 6. Alternative Unions. The Pan Malayan Chinese Rubber Workers Union. The Malayan Estate Workers Union. The United Malayan Estate Workers Union. The Bukit Asahan Dispute. The General Strike. The Long March. In the Aftermath of the Long March
- 7. The NUPW and Plantation Labour. The NUPW: A Large Union. The Wage Question. The Monthly Wage Issue. Neglect of Labour in Non-MAPA Estates. The Raub Oil Mill Dispute. The House Ownership Scheme. The Third Party Contract System. A Capitalist Union. The Question of Democracy
- 8. The State and Capital in the Plantations. The State: Autonomous or an Instrument of Capital? The State and Plantation Unions. Plantation Capital - Merchant Capital? Conclusion.