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bo allowed to work longer hours ! ! ! (14) Other local strikes have occurred as a result of pay differentials.between local (i.c. Chinese) and expatriate (ie European, largely British) workers doing the same job. (eg the last Cable and Wirelo strike).

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Hansard 6 November 1972 Col. 55

The UNCTAD figures are summarised in Bill Warren, 'Imperialism and Capitalist

Industrialisation' in New Loft Review, No.81 September

October 1973 Page 8

'Industrial Relations in Hong Kong' by Joo England in Keith Hopkins od.

Hong Kong the Industrial Colony, Page 234. This book and England's chapter especially are the best published studies availablo recently.

The historical background is best covered in Jean Cheneaux The Chinese Labour Movernet 1919 to 1927, Stanford (1968) ospecially Chapter XII.

5. Hopkins., Page 241

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Hansard 27 November 1972 Col. 17

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ibid 23 November 1972 Col 481

8. Hopkins cit Page 238

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ibid

10. Registrar of Trade Unions, Annual Report 1968-9 HK (1969) Page 29

11.Hopkins. cit. p251

12. Association for Radical East Asian Studies, Hong Kong: Britain's last Colonial

Stronghold, Vol.2 No.1, London (1972) Page 70

15. Joo England, Labour Policy in Hong Kong' in Vonturo (The Fabian Society,

London) Vol.22 No.11, Docenber 1970 P.23

14. Association for Radical East Asian Studies, cit. Page 70

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