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Bonded labour:global and comparative perpective (18th-21st century)

Muller, Gesine - Nama Orang
Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine - Nama Orang
Lender, Urlike - Nama Orang
Tappe, Oliver - Nama Orang
Zeuske, Michael - Nama Orang

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms 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.

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