Workers, Unions and Politics: Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s

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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. Contents Acknowledgements Preface A Note on Spelling Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Managing the Urban Workforce The Urban Context Colonial Views of Urban Workers The State and Social Control Policing Urban Workers Workplace Organisation and Discipline The State and Industrial Laws The Idea of a Minimum Wage Reviewing the Criminal Code Chapter Two Structures, Leaders and Followers The Political Context Unions and Politics Race, Class and Unions Gender and Unions Structures Leaders Members Chapter Three From Confrontation to Accommodation Indonesian and European Unions Railway Workers Surjopranoto and Public Sector Unions Post Office Workers Teachers’ Unions Sarekat Kaum Buruh Indonesia Political Parties and Labour Unions The Indonesian Study Club and Labour Unions A New Labour Union Federation The Eve of the Depression Chapter Four Surviving the Depression The Urban Impact Indonesian Reactions Indianisation and the Salaries Commission Unions and the Depression Pawnshop Workers A ‘Workers’ Press’ Railway Workers Surabaya and Private Sector Workers The Wild Schools Ordinance The Influence of India Cooperating Across the Race Divide Chapter Five State and Employer Reaction Arrests and Mutiny Public Sector Unions Labour Unions and Nationalist Politics Indonesian Workers’ Congress Railway Workers and ‘Passive Resistance’ Regrouping Surabaya PVPN Eurasians and Chinese Indonesian and European Cooperation Union Protests Chapter Six Rebuilding a Labour Movement Indianisation Public Sector Unions Railway Workers Post, Telephone,Telegraph and Radio Workers Nurses and Midwives Teachers’ Unions Creating a Narrative Workers in the Private Sector In Search of National Bodies The Idea of a Labour Party The Approach of War The Labour Movement in 1942 Conclusion Bibliography Manuscripts Netherlands National Archives, The Hague National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam Official Publications Labour Union Publications Newspapers Secondary Sources About the Author Index