Abstract
This paper examines the position of labour in the Malaysian economy and the fundamentals of the industrial relations system in that country as the situation was at the beginning of the 1980s. These questions are examined in the context of the evolution of economic development strategy in Malaysia and the position of labour generally in developing South-East Asia. The conclusion is that the early tradition of voluntarism, originating in British colonial Malaya, has gradually been eroded by government intervention, allegedly in the interests of the strategy of development though importation of capital and an increasing proportion of light manufactured exports. Although the paper primarily concentrates on charting the process of this intervention it also suggests some possible adverse repercussions for industrial relations.
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