1 option
Workers, unions and politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s / by John Ingleson.
Lippincott Library HD8706 .I54 2014
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ingleson, John, author.
- Series:
- Brill's Southeast Asian library ; v. 2.
- Brill's Southeast Asian library ; volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor movement--Indonesia--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- Labor unions--Indonesia--History--20th century.
- Labor unions.
- Industrial relations--Indonesia--History--20th century.
- Industrial relations.
- History.
- Indonesia--History--20th century.
- Indonesia.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 352 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2014.
- Summary:
- "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 recover from the crackdown by the colonial state and then cope with the impact of the 1930s depression. Labour unions were voices for greater social justice, for stronger legal protection and for improved opportunities for workers. They created a discourse of social rights and wage justice. They were major contributors to the growth of a stronger civil society. The experiences and remembered histories of these years helped shape the agendas of post-independence labour unions"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Managing the Urban Workforce 11
- The Urban Context 11
- Colonial Views of Urban Workers 16
- The State and Social Control 18
- Policing Urban Workers 21
- Workplace Organisation and Discipline 24
- The State and Industrial Laws 29
- The Idea of a Minimum Wage 31
- Reviewing the Criminal Code 35
- 2 Structures, Leaders and Followers 41
- The Political Context 41
- Unions and Politics 44
- Race, Class and Unions 47
- Gender and Unions 49
- Structures 52
- Leaders 58
- Members 65
- 3 From Confrontation to Accommodation 69
- Indonesian and European Unions 69
- Railway Workers 75
- Surjopranoto and Public Sector Unions 82
- Post Office Workers 91
- Teachers' Unions 97
- Sarekat Kaum Buruh Indonesia 105
- Political Parties and Labour Unions 117
- The Indonesian Study Club and Labour Unions 124
- A New Labour Union Federation 132
- The Eve of the Depression 136
- 4 Surviving the Depression 139
- The Urban Impact 139
- Indonesian Reactions 147
- Indianisation and the Salaries Commission 150
- Unions and the Depression 156
- Pawnshop Workers 158
- A 'Workers' Press' 165
- Railway Workers 169
- Surabaya and Private Sector Workers 173
- The Wild Schools Ordinance 181
- The Influence of India 184
- Cooperating Across the Race Divide 190
- 5 State and Employer Reaction 201
- Arrests and Mutiny 201
- Public Sector Unions 211
- Labour Unions and Nationalist Politics 222
- Indonesian Workers' Congress 230
- Railway Workers and 'Passive Resistance' 235
- Regrouping 242
- Surabaya 248
- PVPN 251
- Eurasians and Chinese 255
- Indonesian and European Cooperation 258
- Union Protests 260
- 6 Rebuilding a Labour Movement 265
- Indianisation 265
- Public Sector Unions 271
- Railway Workers 274
- Post, Telephone, Telegraph and Radio Workers 283
- Nurses and Midwives 288
- Teachers' Unions 294
- Creating a Narrative 300
- Workers in the Private Sector 304
- In Search of National Bodies 313
- The Idea of a Labour Party 316
- The Approach of War 325
- The Labour Movement in 1942 329.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004264469
- 9789004264465
- OCLC:
- 862041547
- Publisher Number:
- 99958677384
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.