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Frontmatter
List of Tables
Preface
1. Small Arms Fire in the Class War
Razak
Haji "Broom"
The Symbolic Balance of Power
2. Normal Exploitation, Normal Resistance
The Unwritten History of Resistance
Resistance as Thought and Symbol
The Experience and Consciousness of Human Agents
3. The Landscape of Resistance
Background: Malaysia and the Paddy Sector
Middle Ground: Kedah and the Muda Irrigation Scheme
Landownership
Farm Size
Tenure
Mechanization
From Exploitation to Marginalization
Income
Poverty
Institutional Access
4. Sedaka, 1967-1979
The Village
Rich and Poor
Village Composition
Land Tenure
Changes in Tenancy
Changes in Rice Production and Wages
Local Institutions and Economic Power
The Farmers' Association
The Ruling Party in Sedaka
5. History according to Winners and Losers
Class-ifying
Ships Passing—and Signaling—in the Night
Two Subjective Class Histories of the Green Revolution
Double-cropping and Double Vision
From Living Rents to Dead Rents
Combine-Harvesters
Losing Ground: Access to Paddy Land
Rituals of Compassion and Social Control
The Remembered Village
6. Stretching the Truth: Ideology at Work
Ideological Work in Determinate Conditions
The Vocabulary of Exploitation
Bending the Facts: Stratification and Income
Rationalizing Exploitation
Ideological Conflict: The Village Gate
Ideological Conflict: The Village Improvement Scheme
Argument as Resistance
7. Beyond the War of Words: Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity
Obstacles to Open, Collective Resistance
The Effort to Stop the Combine-Harvester
"Routine" Resistance
Trade Unionism without Trade Unions
Imposed Mutuality
Self-Help and/or Enforcement
Prototype Resistance
"Routine" Repression
Routine Compliance and Resistance that Covers Its Tracks
Conformity and the Partial Transcript
What Is Resistance?
8. Hegemony and Consciousness: Everyday Forms of Ideological Struggle
The Material Base and Normative Superstructure in Sedaka
Rethinking the Concept of Hegemony
Penetration
Inevitability, Naturalization, and Justice
Conflict within Hegemony
Trade Union Consciousness and Revolution
Who Shatters the Hegemony?
Appendix A. A Note on Village Population, 1967-1979
Appendix B. Farm Income Comparisons for Different Tenure and Farm Size Categories: Muda, 1966, 1974, 1979
Appendix C. Data on Land Tenure Changes, Net Returns, and Political Office
Appendix D. Glossary of Local Terms
Appendix E. Translation of Surat Layang
Bibliography
Index
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