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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Social Histories of Work in Asia
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (440 p.) : 8 color plates, 17 halftones, 9 line drawings |
| ISBN: | 9789048527144 9783110606447 9783110662788 9783111023762 9783110649826 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |