The Malaysian Estates Staff Provident Fund 1947–2017

In this book, Jerayaj C. Rajarao provides a detailed and compelling account of the first provident fund established in Malaya through co-operation between plantation companies, the All Malayan Estates Staff Union and the then colonial government of Malaya. This account also:

• situates the MESPF in the broader political, economic and social situation in colonial and post-colonial Malaya and later Malaysia,
• highlighting the impact of colonial capitalism and labour regulation,
• the importance of immigration,
• the growth of state intervention in the economy, transformations in the plantation industry
• the impacts of global financial crises on the MESPF.

As the first history of MESPF, The Malaysian Estates Staff Provident Fund 1947–2017, also offers a systematic account of its development, tracing its growth and expansion alongside the rubber and oil palm industries that have been so crucial to the Malaysian economy.