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

• Author: Ingleson, John.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Southeast Asian library; Brill's Southeast Asian Library 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"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 recov...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• 1. Managing the Urban Workforce
• 2. Structures, Leaders and Followers
• 3. From Confrontation to Accommodation
• 4. Surviving the Depression
• 5. State and Employer Reaction
• 6. Rebuilding a Labour Movement
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• About the Author
• Index.