Singapore's rapid economic growth has attracted much admiration.
But can this success be sufficiently explained by canny
exploitation of a niche in the global free market?
This book shows that there is a complex relationship between
economic strategy, social control and political conflict in
Singapore. It does this by looking at the regulatory functions of
major state institutions.
Public housing increases state control and forces
people into wage labour even while supplying
a high standard of accommodation.
Singaporeans are sorted, stratified and fragmented
by the education system.
Racism and patriarchal
relations, seen in language, population planning and eugenics
policies, are integral to education.
Elections and parliament in Singapore are mechanisms for forcing submission,
converting submission into consent and confining politics to
parliamentary politics.
The legal system functions to criminalise politics and politicise
crime.
The findings of all the chapters are drawn together to show how
the system of social control has developed in phases in response to
the changing nature of political resistance.
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