The underside of Malaysian history : pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers--



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The underside of Malaysian history : pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers--

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"The Underside of Malaysian History deals with Malaysian (and Singaporean) social history, particularly from the late nineteenth century to the present. Specifically, the study concentrates on the everyday world of ordinary people, such as rubber smallholders, estate workers, agricultural squatters, railway workers, hackney carriage syces (drivers), rikisha pullers and prostitutes; it also examines the related physical and mental health problems of both them and their families. As such, it is a step towards a people's history designed to make present-day Malaysians conscious of the enormous contribution of their unheralded forbears"--Pref.

Subjects

Working class--Malaysia--History Working class--Singapore--History Malaysia--Social conditions Singapore--Social conditions

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History

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Title
The underside of Malaysian history : pullers, prostitutes, plantation workers--
Subject
  • Working class--Malaysia--History
  • Working class--Singapore--History
  • Malaysia--Social conditions
  • Singapore--Social conditions
Publisher
  • National Library Board Singapore,
  • Singapore University Press for Malaysia Society of the Asian Studies Association of Australia,
Contributors
  • Rimmer, Peter James
  • Allen, Lisa M.
Digital Description
application/pdf, ill., maps
Table of Contents
  • European reactions in Malaya to rubber smallholders in the Inter-war Years / ]ohn Drabble -- 4. From tin mine coolies to agricultural squatters: socio-economic change in the Kinta District during the inter-war years / Loh Kok Wah -- pt. 2. In the cities. 5. Working on the railway: Indian workers in Malaya, 1880-1957 / Amarjit Kaur -- 6. Hackney carriage syces and rikisha pullers in Singapore: a Colonial Registrar's perspective on public transport, 1892-1923 / Peter J. Rimmer -- 7. Prostitution in Singapore society and the Karayuki-san / James F. Warren -- pt. 3. In sickness and in health. 8. Estate workers' health in the Federated Malay States in the 1920s / J. Norman Parmer -- 9. Race, colonial mentality and public health in early twentieth century Malaya / Lenore Manderson -- 10. Malayan Amok and Latah as 'History bound' syndromes / Robert L. Winzeler -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
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  • All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.