The making of a periphery : how island Southeast Asia became a mass exporter of labor /

"Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the wor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bosma, Ulbe, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Colección:Columbia studies in international and global history.
Temas:
1800-1999
Foreign workers, Southeast Asian > History.
Labor market > Southeast Asia > History.
Travailleurs étrangers de l'Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
Marché du travail > Asie du Sud-Est > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Economic assistance > Foreign countries.
Economic history.
Foreign workers, Southeast Asian.
Labor market.
Population.
Southeast Asia > Population > History.
Southeast Asia > Dependency on foreign countries > History.
Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Southeast Asia > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Asie du Sud-Est > Population > Histoire.
Asie du Sud-Est > Dépendance à l'égard de l'étranger > Histoire.
Asie du Sud-Est > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle.
Asie du Sud-Est > Conditions économiques > 20e siècle.
Southeast Asia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Smallpox vaccination and demographic divergences in the nineteenth century
  • The external arena : local slavery and international trade
  • Saved from smallpox, but starving in the sugar cane fields : Java and the northwestern Philippines
  • The labor-scarce commodity frontiers, 1870s to 1942
  • The periphery revisited : commodity exports, food, and industry, 1870s-1942
  • Postcolonial continuities in plantations and migrations

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