Race and the Reproduction of Factory Labor in Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475263 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph A Eden (Sonoma State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-190 |
| Publication date | 1990-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d080175 |
| OpenAlex | W2094680072 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Eager for a rapid increase in labor productivity, the governments of the Third World are turning increasingly to capitalist models of development and to Western and Japanese multinational firms for investment. The recent branch plant industrialization of Malaysia exemplifies a program of statist capitalism intended, among other things, to resolve internal political and social crises. Malaysia's New Economic Policy (NEP) encourages industrial investment in large-scale labor-intensive enterprises as a principal means of providing jobs for the urban poor while bolstering the economy in general. Although the NEP purportedly strives to achieve racial integration and equality at the modern industrial workplace, data from a rapidly urbanizing area suggest that the reality is one of increasing spatial and structural segregation of groups among various large and small-scale activities. The restructured local economy, on the one hand, conserves established sectors dominated by Chinese capital and labor, while, on the other hand, mobilizing migrant Malay labor for employment by large foreign-owned factories
Business · Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Factory (object-oriented programming · Foreign direct investment · Geography · Industrialisation · Investment (military · Labor relations · Labour economics · Market economy · Multinational corporation · Political science · Politics · Productivity · Reproduction · Scale (ratio · Asian Studies and History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Production, work, territory
Global restructuring and territorial development
Class Practices as Regional Markers
Beyond the Geography of Development
Pluralism in Malaysia
The Semiconductor Industry in South-East Asia
The Far East and Australasia 1987
Urbanization of the Malays since Independence
Theatres of Accumulation
Community and Industrial Restructuring
The Geographical Organization of Production-Systems
Industrialisation and Labour Force Processes
The Political Economy of Malaysia
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |