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Industrialization and the work ethic in Singapore (1959-1974)
Author
Wong, Angeline Elizabeth Peoi Ee
Supervisor
Wang, Zhengping
Abstract
This academic exercise tries to look into both the tangible as well as intangible economic factors pertaining to the success of industrialization in Singapore. Singapore decided to go into labour-intensive industrialization to ease the problem of unemployment in the early 1960s and to diversify its economy from one that depended on entrepot trade to one that focused on manufacturing. In the process of industrialization, the Singapore government provided the necessary institutional supports for industrialization to take off. However, can these institutions alone explain the success of industrialization in Singapore? Is there a need to have a work culture or work ethic to support the effort of industrialization in Singapore? This is one area this academic exercise will investigate.
Another area this academic exercise will look into will be what type of work ethic was promoted by the Singapore government during the process of industrialization. Is the work ethic of Singapore derived from a secularized version of the Protestant work ethic or is it derived from the Chinese background of the majority of the Chinese population?
Another area this academic exercise will look into will be what type of work ethic was promoted by the Singapore government during the process of industrialization. Is the work ethic of Singapore derived from a secularized version of the Protestant work ethic or is it derived from the Chinese background of the majority of the Chinese population?
Date Issued
1996
Call Number
HD4905 Won
Date Submitted
1996