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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1. Verfasser: Breman, Jan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Social histories of work in Asia
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (404 Seiten, viii Seiten of plates) color illustrations, color maps, color portraits
ISBN:9048527147
9789048527144
Zugangseinschränkungen:Open Access

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