Chinese-Operated Tin Mining in Perak during the Late Nineteenth Century: A New Style of Labour Employment and the Problem of Absconding

Abstract

Then came the opening up of Kinta. The Larut coolies ran away in hundreds and began to work in smaller kongsis in Kinta under new towkays, at first under very similar conditions to Larut, but, as roads and bridle tracks were opened up and facilities for absconding became greater, under much easier circumstances than heretofore Show more