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Coolie Labour in Colonial Indonesia: A Study of Labour Relations in the Outer Islands, 1900-1940

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Musch has been written about Western capitalism and systems of labour mobilisation in Asia. Yet the fate individual coolie, as the Asian labourer is often called, easily remains evasive and beyond our comprehension. Sources are silent and it is difficult to fit pieces of scattered specific information into large jigsaw puzzles of generalisations about modes of production and labour utilisation. This book is an attempt to come to grips with the conditions under which coolies in an Asian economy, that of late colonial Indonesia, actually lived and worked: whether male or female, Javanese or Chinese.rnrn

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Call Number

331.12 Hou c

Publisher

: Harrssowitz., 1999

Collation

xv + 255 hlm.; ill.; stats.; 14 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

3-447-04135-8

Classification

331.12

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Subject(s)

kolonial
plantation
Buruh
Mining

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Statement of Responsibility

Vincent J. H. Houben & J. Thomas Lindblad (ed.)

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