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Trade unions and the state in Peninsular Malaysia

This book traces the development of trade unions in Peninsular Malaysia over the last century from colonial times to the early 1990s, stressing the key role of the state in shaping the role and nature of organized labour during various time periods. Trade unions were not allowed in British Malaya before 1940. After the Japanese Occupation, organized labour was effectively mobilized by the left, and contributed significantly to the anti-colonial struggle for Independence.

However, from 1948, severe repression directed against the left brought an abrupt end to this development. From the early 1950s, the colonial authorities sought to wean support from the communist-led insurgency by encouraging moderate or responsible unionists, but this did not prevent the resurgence of labour militancy in the mid-1950s on the eve of Independence.

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After a brief honeymoon period with the post-colonial government, union activity mounted again in the 1960s until repression against the left from the mid-1960s took its toll. Extra-parliamentary rule after the May 1969 riots saw increased government efforts to subordinate labour to economic developmental priorities, particularly those of export-oriented industrialization. In the early 1970s, however, there were also concessions to organized labour in an attempt to promote tripartite corporatism.

But from the late 1970s, there has been further subordination of labour to a changing developmentalist agenda increasingly favourable to private business interests.

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English
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192

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Trade Unions and the State in Peninsular Malaysia (South-East Asian Social Science Monographs)
January 12, 1995, Oxford University Press, USA
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Trade unions and the state in Peninsular Malaysia
1994, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.

Published in
Kuala Lumpur, New York
Series
South-East Asian social science monographs

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.88/09595
Library of Congress
HD6820.6 .J66 1994, HD6820.6.J66 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 192 p. ;
Number of pages
192

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Open Library
OL1079114M
Internet Archive
tradeunionsstate0000jomo
ISBN 10
9676530506
LCCN
94002425
OCLC/WorldCat
29751384
Goodreads
4535957

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