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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breman, Jan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Colección:Social histories of work in Asia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (404 pages, viii pages of plates) : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-401) and index.
ISBN:9789048527144
9048527147
Acceso:Open Access