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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Social histories of work in Asia.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 pages, viii pages of plates) : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-401) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048527144 9048527147 |