Mobilizing labour for the global coffee market : profits from an unfree work regime in colonial Java /

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Author / Creator:	Breman, Jan, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (404 pages, viii pages of plates) : color illustrations, color maps, color portraits
Language:	English
Series:	Social histories of work in Asia Social histories of work in Asia.
Subject:	Forced labor -- Indonesia -- Java -- History. Coffee industry -- Indonesia -- Java -- History. Coffee industry. Forced labor. Indonesia -- Java. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306643

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Varying Form of Title:	Profits from an unfree work regime in colonial Java
ISBN:	9789048527144 9048527147 9789089648594 9089648593
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-401) and index. Open Access Print version record.
Summary:	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 mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.
Other form:	Print version: Breman, Jan. Mobilizing labour for the global coffee market 9789089648594

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