Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market Jan Breman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breman, Jan, author.

Series:

Social histories of work in Asia.

Social histories of work in Asia ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Indonesia--Java--History.

Coffee industry.

Forced labor--Indonesia--Java--History.

Forced labor.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : colour illustrations, colour maps, colour portraits.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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 mobilized land and labor, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

Prologue: The need for forced labour

I. The company as a territorial power

II. The introduction of forced cultivation

III. From trading company to state enterprise

IV. Government regulated exploitation versus private agribusiness

V. Unfree labour as a condition for progress

VI. The coffee regime under the cultivation system

VII. Winding up the Priangan system of governance

VIII. Eclipse of the coffee regime from the Sunda highlands

Epilogue: Servitude as the road to progress

Glossary

List of abbreviations

List of illustrations

Archival sources

Index of names

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-69991-X

1-04-078947-1

90-485-2714-7

9781003699910

OCLC:

933298032