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Bonded Labour Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century) Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf, Ulrike Lindner, Gesine Müller, Oliver Tappe, Michael Zeuske
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Forms of Bonded Labour (2014 : University of Cologne)
- Coolies, Forced Work, Migration and Transculturation (2015 : University of Havana)
- Series:
- Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Global Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labour.
- Colonialism.
- Migration.
- History.
- Culture.
- Globalization.
- Postcolonialism.
- Work.
- Global History.
- History of Colonialism.
- Social History.
- Ethnology.
- Local Subjects:
- Labour.
- Colonialism.
- Migration.
- History.
- Culture.
- Globalization.
- Postcolonialism.
- Work.
- Global History.
- History of Colonialism.
- Social History.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Damir-Geilsdorf et al. (eds.), Bonded Labour Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century)
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf is Professor for Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern and South East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in Islamic Studies with a thesis on the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and received her postdoctoral qualification degree (Habilitation) with a study on Palestinian narratives of the Arab-Israeli war 1948. She has carried out field research in various countries of the Middle East and has published widely on transformations of religious concepts, Islamism, (forced) migration in the Middle East, Islam in Germany, and popular culture in Middle Eastern societies.
- Ulrike Lindner is part of the interdisciplinary research group "Migration and Labour" at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany).
- Gesine Müller is professor of romanist philology at the University of Cologne and part of the interdisciplinary research group "Migration and Labour" at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany).
- Oliver Tappe is part of the interdisciplinary research group "Migration and Labour" at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany).
- Michael Zeuske is part of the interdisciplinary research group "Migration and Labour" at the Global South Studies Center (University of Cologne, Germany).
- Summary:
- Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' – mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa – was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour.This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.
- »Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour 9 Coolies - Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery 35 Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers 59 Coolie Transformations - Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century) 83 Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia 103 "His Original Name Is . . ." REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia 133 Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System 163 Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean 191 Cultural Forms of Representation of 'Coolies': Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude 219 Authors 229
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839437339
- 3839437334
- OCLC:
- 1002222626
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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