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

TOJO, TetsuoCooke, Nola2024-10-092024-10-091834-609Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733721426Then 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 heretoforeapplication/pdfen-AU©2009 TOJO TetsuoChinese-Operated Tin Mining in Perak during the Late Nineteenth Century: A New Style of Labour Employment and the Problem of Absconding2009