Editing Pulled rickshaw (section)

====Singapore====
Singapore had received its first rickshaws in 1880 and soon after they were prolific, making a "noticeable change in the traffic on Singapore's streets."<ref name="Warren p. 14" /> [[Bullock cart]]s and [[gharry|gharries]] were used prior to the introduction of rickshaws.<ref name="Suryadinata p. 37" />

Many of the poorest individuals in Singapore in the late nineteenth century were poor, unskilled people of Chinese ancestry. Sometimes called [[coolies]], the hardworking men found pulling rickshaws was a new means of employment.<ref name="Warren p. 15"/> Rickshaw pullers experienced "very poor" [[Habitability|living conditions]], poverty and long hours of hard work. Income remained unchanged from 1876 to 1926, about $.60 per day.<ref name="Suryadinata p. 39">Suryadinata (1992). p. 39.</ref><ref name="Alexander p. 435">{{cite book | title=Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore | publisher=New Holland Publishers | author=James Alexander | year=2006 | pages=435 | isbn=1860113095}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|80% of rickshaw pullers were addicted to opium and many gambled and purchased the services of whores. These activities locked them into a state of poverty, but the remaining group of pullers might be able to improve their lot over time and "strike into new lines of business as the opportunities arose". Rickshaw pullers could become repairers or owners of rickshaws or bicycles.<ref name="Alexander p. 435" /><ref>{{cite book | title=(same) |author=Leo Suryadinata | year=1992 | pages=39–40}}</ref>|group="nb"}}

Rickshaws popularity increased into the 20th century. There were approximately 50,000 rickshaws in 1920 and that number doubled by 1930.<ref name="Lu p. 348" /> In or after the 1920s a union was formed, called the Rickshaw Association, to protect the welfare of rickshaw workers.<ref name="Suryadinata p. 45">Suryadinata (1992). p. 45.</ref>