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100 0 $aJomo K. S.$q(Jomo Kwame Sundaram)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82272315
245 10 $aTrade unions and the state in Peninsular Malaysia /$cJomo Kwame Sundaram, Patricia Todd.
260 $aKuala Lumpur ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
263 $a9407
300 $axiv, 192 pages ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSouth-East Asian social science monographs
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.
505 0 $a1. Wage Labour from Colonial Times to the Modern Era. The Emergence of 'Free' Wage Labour. Early Government Labour Regulations. Post-war Employment Trends. Ethnic and Gender Trends -- 2. Trade Union Membership and Industrial Disputes. Trade Union Membership. Industrial Action -- 3. The Malayan Labour Movement before 1945. Labour Organization before 1930. Depression and Discontent, 1930-1937. Labour and Nationalism, 1938-1941. The Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945 -- 4. The Rise and Demise of Militant Labour, 1945-1950. The Emerging Labour Movement, September 1945-March 1946. The Continued Rise of Labour Militancy, April 1946-March 1947. The Colonial Authorities Check Labour's Growth, April 1947-March 1948. Prelude to the Emergency, April-June 1948. The Elimination of Militant Unionism, June 1948-June 1950 -- 5. Unionism before Independence, 1950-1957. The Growth of Unions. Defusing Public Sector Employee Dissent. Strike Action. The Origins of the NUPW. The Formation of the NUFGW. The Formation of the MTUC.
505 8 $aUnions and Communalism. Unions and Politics. Unions and the State -- 6. Unions and the Post-colonial State, 1957-1969. 'Development' and the Limits of Post-colonial Democracy. Union Developments. The Re-emergence of Radical Unions. Industrial Action. The Role of the MTUC. The Role of CUEPACS. Unions and Politics. 1969: Another Transition for Labour -- 7. A Hollow Corporatism, 1969-1980. Introduction. Union Developments. Industrial Relations. Union Capitalists. The Union Federations. The MAS-AEU Dispute: Another Turning Point -- 8. The Unions in Retreat, 1981-1992. The Impact of the 1980 Amendments. Mahathir's Labour Policies. Unionizing Electronics Workers. Public Sector Employees. The MTUC. CUEPACS Versus the MTUC. Unions and Politics -- 9. Malaysian Trade Unionism: Looking Back and Ahead. Looking Back. Corporatist Labour Policies. Labour Contradictions. Looking Ahead.
520 $aThis 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.
520 8 $aHowever, 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.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAfter 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.
520 8 $aBut from the late 1970s, there has been further subordination of labour to a changing developmentalist agenda increasingly favourable to private business interests.
650 0 $aLabor unions$xGovernment policy$zMalaysia$xHistory.
650 0 $aLabor policy$zMalaysia$xHistory.
700 1 $aTodd, Patricia,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94004586
830 0 $aSouth-East Asian social science monographs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88516000
852 00 $bglx$hHD6820.6$i.J66 1994