Workers, unions and politics : Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s / by John Ingleson.

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"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

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.

English.

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