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 Kniha |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Oxford
Amsterdam University Press
2015
Routledge Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group |
| Vydanie: | 1 |
| Edícia: | Social histories of work in Asia |
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| ISBN: | 9089648593, 9789089648594, 9048527147, 9789048527144, 1041182961, 9781041182962, 1040776485, 100369991X, 9781040789476, 9781003699910, 1040789471, 9781040776483 |
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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 mobilized land and labor, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society. |
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| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index MODID-d66f183fd58:Amsterdam University Press |
| ISBN: | 9089648593 9789089648594 9048527147 9789048527144 1041182961 9781041182962 1040776485 100369991X 9781040789476 9781003699910 1040789471 9781040776483 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003699910 |