Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows...
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| Médium: | E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Amsterdam University Press
2015
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| Edice: | Social Histories of Work in Asia |
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| ISBN: | 9089648593, 9789089648594, 9048527147, 9789048527144 |
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| Shrnutí: | Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society. |
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| Bibliografie: | Relevant Wikipedia pages: Coffee - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee; Corvée - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e; Dutch East India Company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company; Herman Willem Daendels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Willem_Daendels; Java - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java; Parahyangan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parahyangan; Peasant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant MODID-d66f183fd58:Amsterdam University Press |
| ISBN: | 9089648593 9789089648594 9048527147 9789048527144 |
| DOI: | 10.26530/OAPEN_597440 |