Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market write by Jan Breman. This book was released on 2015. Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.
Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers
Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers write by Sven Van Melkebeke. This book was released on 2020-06-22. Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke offers an account of the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period.
Working At Night
Working At Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working At Night write by Ger Duijzings. This book was released on 2022-10-03. Working At Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The night represents almost universally a special, liminal or "out of the ordinary" temporal zone with its own meanings, possibilities and dangers, and political, cultural, religious and social implications. Only in the modern era was the night systematically "colonised" and nocturnal activity "normalised," in terms of (industrial) labour and production processes. Although the globalised 24/7 economy is usually seen as the outcome of capitalist modernisation, development and expansion starting in the late nineteenth century, other consecutive and more recent political and economic systems adopted perpetual production systems as well, extending work into the night and forcing workers to work the "night shift," normalising it as part of an alternative non-capitalist modernity. This volume draws attention to the extended work hours and night shift work, which have remained underexplored in the history of labour and the social science literature. By describing and comparing various political and economic "regimes," it argues that, from the viewpoint of global labour history, night labour and the spread of 24/7 production and services should not be seen, only and exclusively, as an epiphenomenon of capitalist production, but rather as one of the outcomes of industrial modernity.
Slavery and Europe
Slavery and Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and Europe write by Tamira Combrink. This book was released on 2022-08-18. Slavery and Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development, capitalism and inequality. This edited volume explores how Atlantic slaved-based economic activities and their spin-offs have contributed to the economic development of Europe. The contributions to this volume each provide new data and methods for assessing the impact of Atlantic slavery, the slave trade and slave-related economic activities on Europe’s economic development. It traces this impact across Europe, from maritime and colonizing regions to landlocked regions, of which, the ties to the Atlantic slavery complex might seem less obvious at first glance. Together the studies of this volume indicate that slavery and colonialism played a pivotal role in the rise of Europe and globally diverging economic fortunes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Slavery & Abolition.
The World Wide Web of Work
The World Wide Web of Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World Wide Web of Work write by Marcel van der Linden. This book was released on 2023-05-09. The World Wide Web of Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the broad perspective and the effort to perceive connections between global trends over time in work and labour relations, incorporating slaves, indentured labourers and sharecroppers, housewives and domestic servants. Casting this sweeping analytical gaze, The World Wide Web of Work discusses the core concepts ‘capitalism’ and ‘workers’, and refines notions such as ‘coerced labour’, ‘household strategies’ and ‘labour markets’. It explores in new ways the connections between labourers in different parts of the world, arguing that both ‘globalisation’ and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South and were only later introduced in Northern industrial settings. It reveals that 19th-century chattel slavery was frequently replaced by other forms of coerced labour, and it reconstructs the laborious 20th-century attempts of the International Labour Organisation to regulate labour standards supra-nationally. The book also pays attention to the relational inequality through which workers in wealthy countries benefit from the exploitation of those in poor countries. The final part addresses workers’ resistance and acquiescence: why collective actions often have unanticipated consequences; why and how workers sometimes organise massive flights from exploitation and oppression; and why ‘proletarian revolutions’ took place in pre-industrial or industrialising countries and never in fully developed capitalist societies.
