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dc.contributor.authorSheldon, P
dc.contributor.authorGan, B
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, D
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-07T01:05:09Z
dc.date.available2018-09-07T01:05:09Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0007-6791
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00076791.2014.983484
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/171741
dc.description.abstractWe locate the 1980 formation of the Singapore National Employers' Federation (SNEF) within a history of Singaporean tripartism. This redresses a general neglect of employer associations in that system and suggests re-conceptualising Singaporean tripartism into three overlapping phases between 1960 and 1985. The motivations for the first two are well understood. Once in government, the People's Action Party (PAP) suppressed political and union opposition and then sought legitimacy and the integration of Singapore's working class, including by providing a central role for a subordinated union movement. We argue that in a third phase, emerging during the 1970s, PAP brought employer associations into its national distributed leadership model that meshed close personal ties and institutional tripartite roles. SNEF's formation was necessary for rapid tripartite implementation of the PAP's radical shift in economic strategy.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeMortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom438
dc.relation.ispartofpageto460
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBusiness History
dc.relation.ispartofvolume57
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEconomics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy and religious studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode38
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode359999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode50
dc.titleMaking Singapore's tripartism work (faster): the formation of the Singapore National Employers' Federation in 1980
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorGan, Bernard B.


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