@article{ref1,
title="Race, Inequality, and Anti-Chinese Violence in the Netherlands Indies",
journal="Explorations in economic history",
year="2002",
author="Chandra, Siddharth",
volume="39",
number="1",
pages="88-112",
abstract="Movements in wages for subjects of the Netherlands Indies for the period 1908-1917 are analyzed. The analysis reveals a sharp increase in inequality between the ethnic indigenous and Chinese communities between 1910 and 1916, the period of the birth and rise of the anti-Chinese Sarekat Islam movements in Java. It also reveals that this inequality was most severe in a number of residencies of Java, where the movements first took hold. While there is statistical evidence of a link between interracial wage differentials and anti-Chinese violence, there is no link between absolute wages and violence. This evidence suggests that &quot;relative deprivation&quot; is important in understanding ethnic tension.<p />",
language="",
issn="0014-4983",
doi="10.1006/exeh.2001.0777",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/exeh.2001.0777"
}