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Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore, 1880–1940

By James Francis Warren

Book information

Publisher
Singapore University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
9971-69-266-X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32527333 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
433\433
Topic
History
Time added
2019-02-20 09:37:32

Description

Preface (vii)......Page 8 Preface to the First Edition (xi)......Page 11 Contents (xxix)......Page 18 Abbreviations (xxxiv)......Page 23 The Rickshaw Puller (xxxv)......Page 24 Part I. Rickshaws in Singapore (1)......Page 26 1. On Sources and an Approach (3)......Page 27 2. On Leaving China (14)......Page 38 3. The Owners (21)......Page 45 4. The Pullers (33)......Page 57 5. Rickshaws (51)......Page 75 6. Rickshaws in Singapore (60)......Page 84 7. The Rickshaw Department (82)......Page 106 8. Strikes (105)......Page 129 Part II. The Rickshawmen of Singapore: The Structure of Life (135)......Page 159 9. To be a Rickshaw Coolie (137)......Page 160 10. The Puller and the Public (151)......Page 174 11. A Sense of Time and Place (185)......Page 208 12. A Crisis of Habitability (194)......Page 217 13. Marriage and the Elemental Family (216)......Page 255 14. Leisure and the Four Evils (236)......Page 275 15. Morbidity and the Environment (258)......Page 297 16. A Murderous Vocation (282)......Page 321 17. The Spiral of Failure (305)......Page 344 Conclusion: Towards a People's History (316)......Page 355 Appendix 1. Rickshaw Owners (328)......Page 367 Appendix 2. Rickshaw Coolies: Kinship and Occupation (330)......Page 369 Appendix 3. Rickshaw Coolies: Residential Patterns (338)......Page 377 Appendix 4. Rickshaw Coolies: Culpable Homicide And Assault (344)......Page 383 Appendix 5. Wives of Rickshaw Coolies: Suicide (354)......Page 393 Appendix 6. Rickshaw Coolies: Confirmed Cases of Death from Cholera among Cases Dumped, 1910/1911 and 1914 (356)......Page 395 Appendix 7. Rickshaw Coolies: Death Caused By Cardiac Arrest, 1906–1940 (360)......Page 399 Appendix 8. Rickshaw Coolies: Traffic Accidents, 1898–1939 (364)......Page 403 Appendix 9. Rickshaw Coolies: Suicide (372)......Page 411 Bibliography (376)......Page 415 Index (383)......Page 422

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