Govindasamy, Nathan
(1982)
Labour Mobility From The Plantation Sector And
Some Of Its Socio-Economic Implications.
Project Report.
Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
The scope of this graduation exercise has been limited to two case studies of rubber and oil-palm estates probing the issue of labour mobility in the plantation
sector and some of its socio-economic implications. The
research conducted elucidated facts and figures which
well augurs for the claims of labour shortages in the
plantation sector. One obvious implication is that the
labour shortage situation in the estates stand to be
aggravated in the future.
Out-migration from the estates that has occured
during the past five years had lost the most productive members of the labour force. This coupled with the fact that a considerable number of estate residents were found
to be commuters shows that the estate labour force is being
absorbed into the modern industrial sectors which are fast
expanding in areas surrounding the estates. Even among the
commuters, it was found that the persons of young adult age
were the ones who were commuting. These people possessed
minimum levels of education and were mostly single.
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