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Workers, unions and politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s /

"In Workers, Unions and Politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s, John Ingleson revises received understandings of the decade and a half between the failed communist uprisings of 1926/1927 and the Japanese occupation in 1942. They were important years for the labour movement. It had to recov...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ingleson, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.
Colección:Brill's Southeast Asian library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; A Note on Spelling; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One; Managing the Urban Workforce; The Urban Context; Colonial Views of Urban Workers; The State and Social Control; Policing Urban Workers; Workplace Organisation and Discipline; The State and Industrial Laws; The Idea of a Minimum Wage; Reviewing the Criminal Code; Chapter Two; Structures, Leaders and Followers; The Political Context; Unions and Politics; Race, Class and Unions; Gender and Unions; Structures; Leaders; Members; Chapter Three; From Confrontation to Accommodation.
  • Indonesian and European UnionsRailway Workers; Surjopranoto and Public Sector Unions; Post Office Workers; Teachers' Unions; Sarekat Kaum Buruh Indonesia; Political Parties and Labour Unions; The Indonesian Study Club and Labour Unions; A New Labour Union Federation; The Eve of the Depression; Chapter Four; Surviving the Depression; The Urban Impact; Indonesian Reactions; Indianisation and the Salaries Commission; Unions and the Depression; Pawnshop Workers; A 'Workers' Press'; Railway Workers; Surabaya and Private Sector Workers; The Wild Schools Ordinance; The Influence of India.
  • Cooperating Across the Race DivideChapter Five; State and Employer Reaction; Arrests and Mutiny; Public Sector Unions; Labour Unions and Nationalist Politics; Indonesian Workers' Congress; Railway Workers and 'Passive Resistance'; Regrouping; Surabaya; PVPN; Eurasians and Chinese; Indonesian and European Cooperation; Union Protests; Chapter Six; Rebuilding a Labour Movement; Indianisation; Public Sector Unions; Railway Workers; Post, Telephone, Telegraph and Radio Workers; Nurses and Midwives; Teachers' Unions; Creating a Narrative; Workers in the Private Sector; In Search of National Bodies.
  • The Idea of a Labour PartyThe Approach of War; The Labour Movement in 1942; Conclusion; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Netherlands National Archives, The Hague; National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta; International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Official Publications; Labour Union Publications; Newspapers; Secondary Sources; About the Author; Index.