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Record Nr.

UNISA996309232503316

Titolo

Bonded labour : global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st century) / / edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

3-8394-3733-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Global Studies

Disciplina

331.1173

Soggetti

Slave labor - History

Forced labor - History

Peonage - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Acknowledgements    7  Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour    9  Coolies - Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery    35  Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers    59  Coolie Transformations - Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century)    83  Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia    103  "His Original Name Is . . ." REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia    133  Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System    163  Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean    191  Cultural Forms of Representation of 'Coolies': Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude    219  Authors    229

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen.«  Hermann Mückler, Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 147 (2017)