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many workers who took part in the strikes were members of trade unions. The tradee unions, whose member also included English-educated men such as Deven nair, james singh and Sidney woodhull,were concerned with improving workers' conditions. Many tarde union members wanted immediate change to their deemands

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life did not improve. In times of war and occupation, food is about survival and not quality or flavour. For the people who lived through Singapore’s harrowing Japanese Occupation years from 1942 to 1945, survival was made all the more difficult for a number of reasons. Singapore has always been a port city, its lifeline fuelled by trade and commerce.¹ Although the first commercial plantations of nutmeg and pepper never quite took off,² there were considerable swathes of land where pineapple, coconut and rubber grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The town centre made up less than a quarter of the island and there were plenty of rural areas with kampongs that were engaged in market gardening, poultry and pig rearing,³ along with Indian dairy farmers who kept cows to produce milk for sale. Singapore’s rural areas were, in fact, so large that the Municipal Council that administered the island had a Rural Board.

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growing up in the past have a lot of hard time as it i not as technological as today as people faces problem like floods. People in the past does not have smartphones so they normally will go out and play with their friends. Today is more advance than the past as there is transports and other tech things around the world.

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economy recovery was crucial to improving the lives of people in Singapore. Without the revival of trade and industry , people would not have job and the government would not have sufficient tax revenues to pay for the programmes that improved people's welfare

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1. You MUST copy and paste your selected source in your post.

2. Make an inference on each source.

3. Use IEE format.

4. Answer the question: Did life improve for the people of Singapore?