Plantation Systems, Labour Regimes and the State in Malaysia, 1900-2012

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ID2285477
AutoresAmarjit Kaur (0000-0001-9037-1216, UNE Business School University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas190-213
Data de publicação2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/joac.12061
OpenAlexW1561572918
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas29

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 Indian migrant labour for coffee and sugar cultivation in Malaya. The subsequent development of the rubber industry represented the first major transition to more highly capitalized large-scale farming for international markets. In the 1990s, oil palm replaced rubber as the premier crop in a second agrarian transition, consistent with Malaysia's economic and political imperatives, social policy and the global demand for palm oil. There are important continuities in the rubber and oil palm agricultural transitions. These include comparable plantation structures, labour systems and a continuing reliance on migrant labour, despite the growth of the national labour force. The correlation between plantation systems and Malaysia's foreign labour policy should be viewed through the prism of challenges to large-scale agricultural production and countervailing forces that might be acting on the Malaysian state

Agrarian society · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Geography · Market economy · Palm oil · Political science · Politics · Subsidy · Oil Palm Production and Sustainability