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Bonded labour : global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st century) /

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Af...

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Corporate Authors: Universität zu Köln, Casa de Altos Estudios Don Fernando Ortiz, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine (Editor), Lindner, Ulrike (Editor), Müller, Gesine (Editor), Tappe, Oliver (Editor), Zeuske, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016.
Series:Global Studies.
Subjects:
Peonage > History > Congresses.
Forced labor > History > Congresses.
Slave labor > History > Congresses.
Labor contract > History > Congresses.
Labor policy > History > Congresses.
Indentured servants > History > Congresses.
History.
Péonage > Histoire > Congrès.
Travail forcé > Histoire > Congrès.
Esclaves > Travail > Histoire > Congrès.
Contrat de travail > Histoire > Congrès.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire > Congrès.
Main-d'œuvre engagée à long terme > Histoire > Congrès.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
General & world history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Forced labor
Indentured servants
Labor contract
Labor policy
Peonage
Slave labor
Kulturvergleich
Zwangsarbeit
Kontraktarbeit
Colonialism.
Culture.
Ethnology.
Global History.
Globalization.
History of Colonialism.
Migration.
Postcolonialism.
Social History.
Work.
Electronic books.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents ; Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour ; Coolies
  • Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery ; Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers.
  • Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean ; Cultural Forms of Representation of 'Coolies': Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude ; Authors.
  • Coolie Transformations
  • Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century) Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia ; "His Original Name Is . . ." REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia.