The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism Subclass Code_0XC As Christmas Eve nears

As Christmas Eve nears

' Husband Robert has noticed that his boss takes crumb structure as seriously as budget cuts and with redundancies on the horizon

Above them all

Each is indispensable

The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism Subclass Code_0XC As Christmas Eve nearsThis book explores the ethnography of emerging proletarian social consciousness and resistance. By the 1970s Malay peasants on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia found themselves reconstituted as a class, not only as an economic category but also as a community in a capitalist plantation frontier society. The plantation, as a window to capitalism, serves as a micro level base to explore how Malays responded to wage labour and the plantations class