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Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series

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Surabaya is Indonesia’s second largest city but is not well known to the outside world. Yet in 1900, Surabaya was a bigger city than Jakarta and one of the main commercial centers of Asia. Collapse of sugar exports during the 1930s depression, followed by the Japanese occupation, revolution, and independence, brought on a long period of stagnation and retreat from the international economy. Not until the export boom of the 1990s did Surabaya regain prominence as Southeast Asia’s leading non–capital–city industrial area. Previous thinking on Indonesia is being reassessed in light of recent political and economic upheaval. Surabaya, City of Work offers an alternative to the Jakarta-centric focus of most writing on the country. It is a multifaceted view of a fascinating and complex city in the dimensions of time and space, economy and society, and the current transition toward decentralization makes it highly topical. Exploration of this eventful economic history gives new insight into Indonesia’s modern economic development. Industrialization is recognized as being associated with rapid urbanization, but this is the first study of Indonesia from an explicitly urban perspective. Surabaya, City of Work takes a broad approach that links industrialization to socioeconomic trends, the increasing role of government, changing land use, and trade patterns. This well–illustrated local history encompassing national events and trends will be a central work on Indonesia for years to come.

Copyright Statement

© 2002 by the Center for International Studies, Ohio University

Language

eng

ISBN

9780896802216

Publication Date

2002

Publisher

Ohio University Press

City

Athens

Keywords

Surabaya, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Studies, Economic history, Industrialization, Socioeconomic trends

Disciplines

Asian Studies | Economic History | Urban Studies

Surabaya, City of Work: A Socioeconomic History, 1900–2000

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