Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2015
[2015] |
| Colección: | Social histories of work in Asia.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431128906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Table of contents
- Prologue: The need for forced labour
- I. The company as a territorial power
- II. The introduction of forced cultivation
- III. From trading company to state enterprise
- IV. Government regulated exploitation versus private agribusiness
- V. Unfree labour as a condition for progress
- VI. The coffee regime under the cultivation system
- VII. Winding up the Priangan system of governance
- VIII. Eclipse of the coffee regime from the Sunda highlands
- Epilogue: Servitude as the road to progress
- Glossary
- List of abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Archival sources
- Index of names
