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 |
| Sumario: | 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 mobilized land and labor, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (404 pages) : colour illustrations, colour maps, colour portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048527144 |
