Journal articles – Malaysia Trades Union Database

Women, labour activism and unions

Posted on 2022-01-092022-01-09By admin

Women’s activism has been overshadowed by the focus on male worker issues and by the paucity of women in leadership roles. This chapter examines the women’s role in Malaysian unions since the 1970s. … Read More >Women, labour activism and unions

”Otherwise you’re on your own”: unions and bargaining in Malaysian banking

Posted on 2022-01-092022-01-09By admin

Bank unionism illustrates some of the diverse experiences of Malaysian unions in a seemingly hostile legislative environment. … Read More >”Otherwise you’re on your own”: unions and bargaining in Malaysian banking

Economic Development Strategy, Government Labour Policy and Firm-Level Industrial Relations Practices in Malaysia

Posted on 2021-09-132021-09-13By admin

Industrial relations in Malaysia have been recently characterized as becoming highly repressive, with trade unions being weak, excluded by the government from decision-making at national levels and having very little influence at the workplace … Read More >Economic Development Strategy, Government Labour Policy and Firm-Level Industrial Relations Practices in Malaysia

The Impact of the Cold War on the Development of Trade Unionism in Malaya (1948-57)

Posted on 2021-08-212021-08-21By admin

The Pan Malayan General Labour Union, later renamed the Pan Malayan Federation of Trade Union, was established as a front organization to harness multiracial labour support and to work in close liaison with other left-wing political groups. … Read More >The Impact of the Cold War on the Development of Trade Unionism in Malaya (1948-57)

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

Posted on 2021-08-212021-08-21By admin

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 … Read More >Plantation Systems, Labour Regimes and the State in Malaysia, 1900–2012

The Communist Challenge in the Malayan Labour Scene, September 1936-March 1937

Posted on 2021-08-212021-08-21By admin

This paper examines the Malayan labour unrest between September 1936 and March 1937 with special reference to communist involvement, and its effects in Malaya to the outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941. … Read More >The Communist Challenge in the Malayan Labour Scene, September 1936-March 1937

Dasar Perburuhan dan Impaknya Terhadap Pergerakan Kesatuan Sekerja di Malaysia : Satu Kajian Kawal

Posted on 2021-06-192021-06-19By admin

Kertas kerja ini menjelaskan perubahan dasar kerajaan serta tahap penerimaan pergerakan kesatuan sekerja sepanjang era pemerintahan keenam-enam Perdana Menteri Malaysia. … Read More >Dasar Perburuhan dan Impaknya Terhadap Pergerakan Kesatuan Sekerja di Malaysia : Satu Kajian Kawal

Women and Trade Unions in West Malaysia

Posted on 2021-03-022021-06-19By admin

The article attempts to provide a background to an understanding of women’s contribution to the trade union movement in West Malaysia. … Read More >Women and Trade Unions in West Malaysia

Changing employment structures and their effects on industrial relations in Malaysia

Posted on 2021-03-012021-06-19By admin

As more Malays have began working in the industrial sector, they now form more than half of the union leadership and are strongly represented among skilled workers. … Read More >Changing employment structures and their effects on industrial relations in Malaysia

Enterprise Unions: Panacea for Industrial Harmony in Malaysia?

Posted on 2019-01-032021-07-29By admin

Adopting a policy of in-house unionism in the early 1980s, the Malaysian government tried out a new mechanism for securing cooperation and consensus at the enterprise level, focusing on the new Malay workforce in the modern sectors and bypassing the traditional trade unions, structured on industrial, occupational and trade boundaries. … Read More >Enterprise Unions: Panacea for Industrial Harmony in Malaysia?

Malaysia’s regime of labour control and the attempted transition to a knowledge based economy : the problematic role of migrant labour

Posted on 2019-01-022021-07-29By admin

Malaysia’s regime of labour control has been shaped by its origins in the colonial era when Chinese and Indian workers were imported to develop the tin mines and rubber plantations. … Read More >Malaysia’s regime of labour control and the attempted transition to a knowledge based economy : the problematic role of migrant labour

Labour control and labour resistance in the plantations of colonial Malaya

Posted on 2018-11-242019-12-13By admin

Under the (Indian) kangani and the (Chinese) contract systems of labour control, collective forms of resistance of both passive and confrontational types began to emerge … Read More >Labour control and labour resistance in the plantations of colonial Malaya