Having briefly introduced the origin of large-scale electronics manufacturing in Malaysia, the paper explores the investment, production and labour context in this industrial sector in the 1970s and 1980s, paying special attention to changes in work organisation and discusses its implications...

This paper examines the growth and slowdown in the electronics industry in Southeast Asia. American, Japanese and European multinational corporations relocated operations in Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines in the late 1960s and early 1970s to begin electronics assembly, packaging and...