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Bonded labour : global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st century) / Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Ulrike Lindner, Gesine Müller, Oliver Tappe, Michael Zeuske (editions.).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2016Description: 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839437339
  • 3839437334
  • 3837637336
  • 9783837637335
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bonded Labour : Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th-21st Century).DDC classification:
  • 331.1173 23
LOC classification:
  • HD4871 .B663 2016eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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 Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.-- Provided by Publisher.
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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 Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.-- Provided by Publisher.

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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.

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