Rice Cultivation and the Ethnic Division of Labor in British Malaya
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul H Kratoska (0000-0002-1374-889X, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 280-314 |
| Publication date | 1982-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500009932 |
| OpenAlex | W1995861242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 9 |
The idea that the British colonial administration of Malaya systematically excluded non-Malays from rice cultivation has gained some currency in writings on Malaysian history and has become an important part of a model of colonial exploitation. According to this model, the British administration of Malaya undertook to maximize revenue and to serve the needs of British capital by pursuing a policy of ethnic division of labor, with Chinese working in the mines and Indians on the estates of Malaya and with the indigenous Malay population producing food for the mine and estate workers. Immigrant labor, the argument continues, was denied the opportunity to build an economic base in Malaya in order to keep wages low, while the indigenous Malay population was discouraged from growing export produce (particularly rubber) in order to stimulate rice cultivation, thereby creating a cheap supply of food. This model is attractive but in several particulars it is wrong, and taken as a whole it oversimplifies and seriously distorts the situation in colonial Malaya
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2024 (39) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |