Outsourcing African Labor Kru Migratory Workers in Global Ports, Estates and Battlefields until the End of the 19th Century
This title structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nur...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2021
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| Series: | Africa in Global History
4 |
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| Online Access: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | This title structures the fragmented history of Kru workers into a coherent global framework. The migration of Kru workers in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, in commercial and military contexts represents a movement of free wage labour that transformed the Kru Coast into a homeland that nurtured diasporas and staffed a vast network of workplaces. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (275 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110680331 9783110680416 9783110680225 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110680331 |
| Access: | Open Access |