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Archives of the Malaysian Socialist Party
Recently the first batch of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) archives were given to the International Institute of Social History (IISH). PSM has agreed to deposit the following items with IISH:... [Collection highlight]
Malayan Liberation Army
After the Second World War, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) fought successively the British colonial government and the Malayan government. Support for the MCP came mainly from the ethnic Chinese... [Collection highlight]
Making Money Off Migrants
Making Money Off Migrants is a case study of the plight of the migrant worker. While it focuses on the experience of Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia, many of the problems described would be... [Publication]
Women's Work
Contents1. Introduction2. Peninsular Malaya in the Nineteenth Century3. The Household and the Division of Labour4. Colonialism and the integration of Malaysia into the international economy: The... [Publication]
Transforming Industrial Relations
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12 Years of 'Emergency'
'Emergency' was the euphemistic name for a war that had started in 1948 between the British colonial power and Malaysian communists in Malaysia with the killing of three British planters by the... [Item of the Day]