Transformation with Industrialization in Peninsular Malaysia

by Brookfield, Harold; Doube, Loene; Banks, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9789676530301
• ISBN10: 9676530301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From colonial times until the late 1970s the driving force of the Peninsular Malaysia economy was the production and export of primary products--first tin, than rubber and timber, and finally petroleum. In the 1980s export-oriented industrial production took over as the leading sector economy, enabling Malaysia to become a world-class economic performer. This volume shows how a small country with a modest resource endowment used a strong political will to achieve a remarkable transformation. In the process, the contributors detail how the lives of ordinary people have been transformed in the light of Malaysia's economic success.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Tables
Figures
Abbreviations and Glossary
Notes on Contributors
Transformation before the Late 1960s	p. 1
Industrialization and Political Change	p. 14
Agriculture and Industry in Colonial Malaya	p. 35
Agriculture and Industry: Towards Vertical Integration	p. 49
Land Use and Rural Employment Changes since 1966	p. 63
The End of the 'Resource Frontier'	p. 82
Industrial Transformation since 1970: The Context and the Means	p. 95
The Regional Dimension of Industrialization	p. 122
Sectoral Dimensions of Regional Change	p. 149
Some Characteristics of Work in the Manufacturing Sector	p. 169
The State and Industrial Development: Johore Port and the Pasir Gudang Industrial Area	p. 188
Indian Squatters in Kuala Lumpur: People in Transition	p. 210
Locational Stress in Shah Alam	p. 234
Change and the Environment	p. 268
Bibliography	p. 288
Index	p. 307
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