Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java

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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Main Author: Breman, Jan (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2015
Series:Social Histories of Work in Asia
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