TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ingleson,John
TI  - Workers, unions and politics: Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s 
AV  - HD8706 .I54 2014eb
U1  - 331.8809598/09042 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - Industrial relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10837908
ER  -