Workers, unions and politics
Subtitle: Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s
By: by John Ingleson
Series: Brill's Southeast Asian library
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789004264465; 9789004264762
Subjects: Labor movement; History; Labor unions; Industrial relations
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.