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ID073068
Title ProperBeyond rubber prices
Other Title Informationnegotiating the great depression in Singapore
LanguageENG
AuthorSeng, Loh Kah
Publication2006.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This paper looks at life in Singapore during the Great Depression in the early 1930s from the perspectives of the ordinary people who lived through it. Besides discussing the slump's impact on businesses, wages and employment, it examines how effectively people responded to the crisis. Their distress was alleviated by immigration controls and a fall in the cost of living at the societal level, and also by mutual help, based on family and kinship ties, at the individual level. It appears that life for many people was not as difficult as might be supposed. The quality of life, reflected in indices such as mortality and crime, seemed generally satisfactory after 1930, while the island was also spared serious social and political upheaval.
`In' analytical NoteSouth East Asia Research Vol. 14, No. 1; Mar 2006: p5-31
Journal SourceSouth East Asia Research Vol: 14 No 1
Key WordsSingapore ;  Great Depression ;  Social Conditions