Amarjit Kaur
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amarjit Kaur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amarjit |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaur |
| SIGNATURE | KAUR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9037-1216 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Psychological stress: Repercussions of Covid ‐19 on gender
The purpose of our study is to examine the effect of Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) on psychological health of people specific to IES, mental health, family social support, lifestyle changes and also, to analyze the gender differences of perceiving and handling the psychological stress due to the COVID‐19. An online questionnaire was filled by 325 respondents. All the respondents of the study have an IES score ≥ 26, reflecting a powerful impact o…
Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore ed. by Timothy P. Barnard
Reviewed by: Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore ed. by Timothy P. Barnard Amarjit Kaur Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore Timothy P. Barnard (ed.) + Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, 340pp. ISBN: 978-9971-69-790-7 (paperback) This collection of essays consists of an Introduction by the Editor and nine scholarly contributions by authors (including the editor) who have the credentials that qualify them to write the…
Migrant Labor and Welfare in Southeast Asia
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Southeast Asia's increased incorporation into the international economy was associated with the expansion of European capitalism, the exploitation of raw materials, and transformation of the existing geography of production. Political and economic integration led to specialization in mineral and agricultural production and employment growth in three main areas - mining, agriculture, and servic…
Managing Labour Migration in Malaysia: Guest Worker Programs and the Regularisation of Irregular Labour Migrants as a Policy Instrument
Malaysia was built on immigration and, like other labour-importing countries, acknowledges the case for temporary labour migration as a solution to labour shortages in the country. The government has endorsed guest worker programs that are typically short term, and that include a range of restrictions to regulate the movement of low-skilled foreign workers. Most exclude explicit reference to labour protections. The State's low-skilled labour poli…
Plantation Systems, Labour Regimes and the State in Malaysia, 1900-2012
Plantation production systems, plantation labour regimes and a foreign workforce typified European investment in the large-scale agricultural sector in colonial Malaya. Analogous structures and trends continue to be influential in Malaysia's contemporary commercial agricultural sector. Initially, the politics and organization of the East India Company and the pursuit of tropical commodities corresponded with the facilitation and channelling of In…
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant workers experiences in constraining frames and the options they seize or constraints they circumvent. It traces the development from 19th-century pro…
Labour Brokers in Migration: Understanding Historical and Contemporary Transnational Migration Regimes in Malaya/Malaysia
Labour brokerage and its salient role in the mobility of workers across borders in Asia has been the subject of recent debate on the continuing usefulness of intermediaries in labour mobility and migration processes. Some researchers believe that labour brokerage will decline with the expansion of migrant networks, resulting in reduced transaction costs and a better deal for migrant workers. From an economic standpoint, however, reliance on broke…
Indian Ocean Crossings: Indian Labor Migration And Settlement In Southeast Asia, 1870 To 1940
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Southeast Asia was one of two main destinations of mass migration (the other being the United States) and Indian and Chinese labor migrants dominated migration flows. This movement was a defining feature of Asian globalization and Chinese and Indian immigration rates were comparable to transatlantic immigration rates during the same period. While the transatlantic migration flows are acknowledg…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Labour migration trends and policy challenges in Southeast Asia
Labour migration in Southeast Asia since the 1970s and 1980s must be understood as an integral part of the post-colonial new geographies of migration. The scope and scale of transnational movements have grown rapidly and major states like Malaysia and Thailand between them currently host about 70 per cent of the estimated 13.5 million migrant workers in the region. Singapore's foreign labour force accounts for 25 per cent of the country's workfor…
A new order? Asian labour migration, new geographies of migration and global governance
Migration and development are prominent themes in international and Asian development debates and are also the topics of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR 2009), which finds that ‘more mobility would be beneficial’ and posits that countries should make migration easier rather than bolster border control regimes. In Asia, current migration flows indicate an accentuation of trends, reflecting longer-term shifts in the region. The guest worker …
Labour migration in Southeast Asia: Migration policies, labour exploitation and regulation
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are Southeast Asia's economic development success stories and have been shifting towards an intra-regional bias on trade and migration matters. All three countries are heavily dependent on foreign workers and have government-mediated migration policies for their continued economic growth and prosperity. Managing migration is a major problem facing these countries, and the guest worker programme is increasingly see…
On the Move: International Migration in Southeast Asia since the 1980s
Migration has been a persistent theme in Southeast Asian labour history and migrants have been either permanent settlers or temporary residents. In the second half of the nineteenth‐century migration coincided with European expansion into the region and was linked to economic development and labour market needs. Borders were porous, there was an empire‐wide sourcing of labour, and migration regimes were relatively stable. Since the 1980s migratio…
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people. This book explores: sovereignty; security issues and border-managem
Indian Labour, Labour Standards, and Workers' Health in Burma and Malaya, 1900-1940
Indian labour migration to Burma and Malaya in the late nineteenth century was an important dimension of British colonial rule in Southeast Asia and coincided with the region's greater integration into the international economy. Compared to the Chinese, Indians formed an important minority only in these states where they filled a critical need in the urban manufacturing sector (Burma) and the plantation sector (Malaya). Their importance declined …
Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840: Globalization, the International Division of Labour and Labour Transformations
Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labour systems. There are five main themes - labour processes, migration and labour systems; labour circulation or mobility; the gendered nature of labour relations; and, class consciousness, worker organiz…
Trade liberalisation as development strategy in Bangladesh: Are labour standards part of the equation
This paper’s main focus is the labour systems associated with labour-intensive production of export manufactures and, more accurately, the role of women workers in industrialising Bangladesh. The labour market is one of the main channels through which globalisation has impacted on the Asian economies, and it is instructive to study the differing experiences of workers engaged in cross-border production networks. The paper is divided into four sec…
South Asia—globalisation and Bangladesh: Labour and environmental issues
Four decades of rapid economic growth in most parts of Asia have resulted in fundamental economic and social transformations and a reduction in overall poverty. Labour markets and labour systems are also changing, as Asian states move progressively up the economic ladder to join the ranks of the second-tier and next-generation industrialising countries. Generally these advances have been warmly welcomed. Nevertheless, many observers are concerned…
Working on the global conveyor belt: Women workers in industrialising Malaysia
The Shaping of Malaysia
This book brings together for the first time studies on all aspects of the Malaysian economy. These range from the geological origins and mineral resources, flora, fauna, peoples and cultures, politic
Economic Change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak Since 1850
An authoritative economic history of Sabah and Sarawak since the 19th century emphasising their distinctive colonial history and the attempts to modernise them since they became part of Malaysia in 19
Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970
(1998). Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, Across The Kala Pani: Indian Overseas Migration and Settlement, pp. 73-102
A History of Forestry in Sarawak
Tropical deforestation and the associated economic, ecological, and equity issues have become a matter of general interest and concern for scholars, international conservation and environmental organizations, and local pressure groups. 'Remote' outposts like Sarawak ('Land of the White Rajahs') have suddenly been thrust into the limelight as conflicts arose between different interest and ethnic groups for allocation of land and rights to utilize …
Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950
(1996). Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 95-120
The Babbling Brookes: Economic Change in Sarawak 1841-1941
The present day economy of Sarawak is characterized by a small but rapidly growing, largely rural population engaged in low productivity, semi-subsistence agriculture; a dependence on the export of a few primary commodities; the relative absence of modern transportation linkages, and a small industrial sector. In many respects, therefore, Sarawak represents a microcosm of the underdeveloped world. Yet for about a hundred years Sarawak was ruled b…
Labour migration in Southeast Asia: Migration policies, labour exploitation and regulation
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are Southeast Asia's economic development success stories and have been shifting towards an intra-regional bias on trade and migration matters. All three countries are heavily dependent on foreign workers and have government-mediated migration policies for their continued economic growth and prosperity. Managing migration is a major problem facing these countries, and the guest worker programme is increasingly see…
Managing Labour Migration in Malaysia: Guest Worker Programs and the Regularisation of Irregular Labour Migrants as a Policy Instrument
Malaysia was built on immigration and, like other labour-importing countries, acknowledges the case for temporary labour migration as a solution to labour shortages in the country. The government has endorsed guest worker programs that are typically short term, and that include a range of restrictions to regulate the movement of low-skilled foreign workers. Most exclude explicit reference to labour protections. The State's low-skilled labour poli…
Labour migration trends and policy challenges in Southeast Asia
Labour migration in Southeast Asia since the 1970s and 1980s must be understood as an integral part of the post-colonial new geographies of migration. The scope and scale of transnational movements have grown rapidly and major states like Malaysia and Thailand between them currently host about 70 per cent of the estimated 13.5 million migrant workers in the region. Singapore's foreign labour force accounts for 25 per cent of the country's workfor…
Indian Labour, Labour Standards, and Workers' Health in Burma and Malaya, 1900-1940
Indian labour migration to Burma and Malaya in the late nineteenth century was an important dimension of British colonial rule in Southeast Asia and coincided with the region's greater integration into the international economy. Compared to the Chinese, Indians formed an important minority only in these states where they filled a critical need in the urban manufacturing sector (Burma) and the plantation sector (Malaya). Their importance declined …
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Labour Brokers in Migration: Understanding Historical and Contemporary Transnational Migration Regimes in Malaya/Malaysia
Labour brokerage and its salient role in the mobility of workers across borders in Asia has been the subject of recent debate on the continuing usefulness of intermediaries in labour mobility and migration processes. Some researchers believe that labour brokerage will decline with the expansion of migrant networks, resulting in reduced transaction costs and a better deal for migrant workers. From an economic standpoint, however, reliance on broke…
A History of Forestry in Sarawak
Tropical deforestation and the associated economic, ecological, and equity issues have become a matter of general interest and concern for scholars, international conservation and environmental organizations, and local pressure groups. 'Remote' outposts like Sarawak ('Land of the White Rajahs') have suddenly been thrust into the limelight as conflicts arose between different interest and ethnic groups for allocation of land and rights to utilize …
The Babbling Brookes: Economic Change in Sarawak 1841-1941
The present day economy of Sarawak is characterized by a small but rapidly growing, largely rural population engaged in low productivity, semi-subsistence agriculture; a dependence on the export of a few primary commodities; the relative absence of modern transportation linkages, and a small industrial sector. In many respects, therefore, Sarawak represents a microcosm of the underdeveloped world. Yet for about a hundred years Sarawak was ruled b…
Plantation Systems, Labour Regimes and the State in Malaysia, 1900-2012
Plantation production systems, plantation labour regimes and a foreign workforce typified European investment in the large-scale agricultural sector in colonial Malaya. Analogous structures and trends continue to be influential in Malaysia's contemporary commercial agricultural sector. Initially, the politics and organization of the East India Company and the pursuit of tropical commodities corresponded with the facilitation and channelling of In…
The Impact of Railroads on The Malayan Economy, 1874-1941
The main contention of this essay is that railways in Malaya were constructed specifically to serve the tin and rubber industries which were dominated by Western capitalist enterprise. The railroads were concentrated in the west coast states, reinforcing the trend toward economic specialization that had already begun. The pattern of subsequent capital investment which was related to railroad development produced wide regional inequalities. It gav…
Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950
(1996). Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 95-120
Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970
(1998). Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, Across The Kala Pani: Indian Overseas Migration and Settlement, pp. 73-102
Hantu' and Highway: Transport in Sabah 1881-1963
Sabah (previously known as British North Borneo) occupies the whole of the northern portion of the island of Borneo, covering an area of 76, 115 square kilometres. Its immediate neighbours are Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). From 1882 to 1942, Sabah was administered by the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company. The territory possessed three main attractions: its timber, its reputed minerals and its land. Timber has now grow…
Psychological stress: Repercussions of Covid ‐19 on gender
The purpose of our study is to examine the effect of Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) on psychological health of people specific to IES, mental health, family social support, lifestyle changes and also, to analyze the gender differences of perceiving and handling the psychological stress due to the COVID‐19. An online questionnaire was filled by 325 respondents. All the respondents of the study have an IES score ≥ 26, reflecting a powerful impact o…
Working on the global conveyor belt: Women workers in industrialising Malaysia
A new order? Asian labour migration, new geographies of migration and global governance
Migration and development are prominent themes in international and Asian development debates and are also the topics of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR 2009), which finds that ‘more mobility would be beneficial’ and posits that countries should make migration easier rather than bolster border control regimes. In Asia, current migration flows indicate an accentuation of trends, reflecting longer-term shifts in the region. The guest worker …
On the Move: International Migration in Southeast Asia since the 1980s
Migration has been a persistent theme in Southeast Asian labour history and migrants have been either permanent settlers or temporary residents. In the second half of the nineteenth‐century migration coincided with European expansion into the region and was linked to economic development and labour market needs. Borders were porous, there was an empire‐wide sourcing of labour, and migration regimes were relatively stable. Since the 1980s migratio…
Hewers and Haulers: A History of Coal Miners and Coal Mining in Malaya
The history of coal mining in Malaya is synonymous with the history of Malayan Collieries and Batu Arang town since coal was only ever economically mined in this small area in Ulu Selangor. The town of Batu Arang, the Malayan Collieries and the mines left an indelible mark on Malayan history. Previous accounts of the history of coal mining are restricted to mentions in general works on labour and the labour unrest of 1936-37 and 1946-47. This pap…
The Impact of Railroads on The Malayan Economy, 1874-1941
The main contention of this essay is that railways in Malaya were constructed specifically to serve the tin and rubber industries which were dominated by Western capitalist enterprise. The railroads were concentrated in the west coast states, reinforcing the trend toward economic specialization that had already begun. The pattern of subsequent capital investment which was related to railroad development produced wide regional inequalities. It gav…
Hewers and Haulers: A History of Coal Miners and Coal Mining in Malaya
The history of coal mining in Malaya is synonymous with the history of Malayan Collieries and Batu Arang town since coal was only ever economically mined in this small area in Ulu Selangor. The town of Batu Arang, the Malayan Collieries and the mines left an indelible mark on Malayan history. Previous accounts of the history of coal mining are restricted to mentions in general works on labour and the labour unrest of 1936-37 and 1946-47. This pap…
Hantu' and Highway: Transport in Sabah 1881-1963
Sabah (previously known as British North Borneo) occupies the whole of the northern portion of the island of Borneo, covering an area of 76, 115 square kilometres. Its immediate neighbours are Brunei, Sarawak and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). From 1882 to 1942, Sabah was administered by the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company. The territory possessed three main attractions: its timber, its reputed minerals and its land. Timber has now grow…
The Babbling Brookes: Economic Change in Sarawak 1841-1941
The present day economy of Sarawak is characterized by a small but rapidly growing, largely rural population engaged in low productivity, semi-subsistence agriculture; a dependence on the export of a few primary commodities; the relative absence of modern transportation linkages, and a small industrial sector. In many respects, therefore, Sarawak represents a microcosm of the underdeveloped world. Yet for about a hundred years Sarawak was ruled b…
Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950
(1996). Tin miners and tin mining in Indonesia, 1850–1950. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 95-120
Economic Change in East Malaysia: Sabah and Sarawak Since 1850
An authoritative economic history of Sabah and Sarawak since the 19th century emphasising their distinctive colonial history and the attempts to modernise them since they became part of Malaysia in 19
Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970
(1998). Tappers and weeders: South Indian plantation workers in Peninsular Malaysia, 1880–1970. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 21, Across The Kala Pani: Indian Overseas Migration and Settlement, pp. 73-102
A History of Forestry in Sarawak
Tropical deforestation and the associated economic, ecological, and equity issues have become a matter of general interest and concern for scholars, international conservation and environmental organizations, and local pressure groups. 'Remote' outposts like Sarawak ('Land of the White Rajahs') have suddenly been thrust into the limelight as conflicts arose between different interest and ethnic groups for allocation of land and rights to utilize …
The Shaping of Malaysia
This book brings together for the first time studies on all aspects of the Malaysian economy. These range from the geological origins and mineral resources, flora, fauna, peoples and cultures, politic
Working on the global conveyor belt: Women workers in industrialising Malaysia
Trade liberalisation as development strategy in Bangladesh: Are labour standards part of the equation
This paper’s main focus is the labour systems associated with labour-intensive production of export manufactures and, more accurately, the role of women workers in industrialising Bangladesh. The labour market is one of the main channels through which globalisation has impacted on the Asian economies, and it is instructive to study the differing experiences of workers engaged in cross-border production networks. The paper is divided into four sec…
South Asia—globalisation and Bangladesh: Labour and environmental issues
Four decades of rapid economic growth in most parts of Asia have resulted in fundamental economic and social transformations and a reduction in overall poverty. Labour markets and labour systems are also changing, as Asian states move progressively up the economic ladder to join the ranks of the second-tier and next-generation industrialising countries. Generally these advances have been warmly welcomed. Nevertheless, many observers are concerned…
Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840: Globalization, the International Division of Labour and Labour Transformations
Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labour systems. There are five main themes - labour processes, migration and labour systems; labour circulation or mobility; the gendered nature of labour relations; and, class consciousness, worker organiz…
Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia
One of the biggest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region in the 21st century is the large scale cross-border movement of people. This book explores: sovereignty; security issues and border-managem
Indian Labour, Labour Standards, and Workers' Health in Burma and Malaya, 1900-1940
Indian labour migration to Burma and Malaya in the late nineteenth century was an important dimension of British colonial rule in Southeast Asia and coincided with the region's greater integration into the international economy. Compared to the Chinese, Indians formed an important minority only in these states where they filled a critical need in the urban manufacturing sector (Burma) and the plantation sector (Malaya). Their importance declined …
On the Move: International Migration in Southeast Asia since the 1980s
Migration has been a persistent theme in Southeast Asian labour history and migrants have been either permanent settlers or temporary residents. In the second half of the nineteenth‐century migration coincided with European expansion into the region and was linked to economic development and labour market needs. Borders were porous, there was an empire‐wide sourcing of labour, and migration regimes were relatively stable. Since the 1980s migratio…
Labour migration trends and policy challenges in Southeast Asia
Labour migration in Southeast Asia since the 1970s and 1980s must be understood as an integral part of the post-colonial new geographies of migration. The scope and scale of transnational movements have grown rapidly and major states like Malaysia and Thailand between them currently host about 70 per cent of the estimated 13.5 million migrant workers in the region. Singapore's foreign labour force accounts for 25 per cent of the country's workfor…
A new order? Asian labour migration, new geographies of migration and global governance
Migration and development are prominent themes in international and Asian development debates and are also the topics of the 2009 Human Development Report (HDR 2009), which finds that ‘more mobility would be beneficial’ and posits that countries should make migration easier rather than bolster border control regimes. In Asia, current migration flows indicate an accentuation of trends, reflecting longer-term shifts in the region. The guest worker …
Labour migration in Southeast Asia: Migration policies, labour exploitation and regulation
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand are Southeast Asia's economic development success stories and have been shifting towards an intra-regional bias on trade and migration matters. All three countries are heavily dependent on foreign workers and have government-mediated migration policies for their continued economic growth and prosperity. Managing migration is a major problem facing these countries, and the guest worker programme is increasingly see…
Indian Ocean Crossings: Indian Labor Migration And Settlement In Southeast Asia, 1870 To 1940
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Southeast Asia was one of two main destinations of mass migration (the other being the United States) and Indian and Chinese labor migrants dominated migration flows. This movement was a defining feature of Asian globalization and Chinese and Indian immigration rates were comparable to transatlantic immigration rates during the same period. While the transatlantic migration flows are acknowledg…
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the regional migrations of individual seas and oceans of the early modern era toward nineteenth-century labor migrations that connected the Pacific and Ind…
Labour Brokers in Migration: Understanding Historical and Contemporary Transnational Migration Regimes in Malaya/Malaysia
Labour brokerage and its salient role in the mobility of workers across borders in Asia has been the subject of recent debate on the continuing usefulness of intermediaries in labour mobility and migration processes. Some researchers believe that labour brokerage will decline with the expansion of migrant networks, resulting in reduced transaction costs and a better deal for migrant workers. From an economic standpoint, however, reliance on broke…
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant workers experiences in constraining frames and the options they seize or constraints they circumvent. It traces the development from 19th-century pro…
Managing Labour Migration in Malaysia: Guest Worker Programs and the Regularisation of Irregular Labour Migrants as a Policy Instrument
Malaysia was built on immigration and, like other labour-importing countries, acknowledges the case for temporary labour migration as a solution to labour shortages in the country. The government has endorsed guest worker programs that are typically short term, and that include a range of restrictions to regulate the movement of low-skilled foreign workers. Most exclude explicit reference to labour protections. The State's low-skilled labour poli…
Plantation Systems, Labour Regimes and the State in Malaysia, 1900-2012
Plantation production systems, plantation labour regimes and a foreign workforce typified European investment in the large-scale agricultural sector in colonial Malaya. Analogous structures and trends continue to be influential in Malaysia's contemporary commercial agricultural sector. Initially, the politics and organization of the East India Company and the pursuit of tropical commodities corresponded with the facilitation and channelling of In…
Political science (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (13 works) · Economy (12 works) · History (10 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works)