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Workers and intellectuals : NGOs, trade unions and the Indonesian labour movement
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ISBN: 9789067183550 9067183555 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden KITLV Press

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Workers, unions and politics
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ISBN: 9004264469 9004264760 9789004264762 9789004264465 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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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"--

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