Across the Kala Pani : the global and local contexts of penal transportation -- "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy sepoys, and Neas men": The Bengkulu world of the Khan brothers, 1797-1825 -- "Kumpanee ke noukur" : rajas and robbers in Penang, 1790s-1870s -- "Near China beyond the seas …
Criminality at work
From the Master and Servant legislation to the Factories Acts of the 19th century, the criminal law has always had a vital yet normatively complex role in the regulation of work relations. Even in its earliest forms, it operated both as a tool to repress collective organizations…
"The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of…
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Work was a core concept in National Socialism. In pre-war concentration camps, it was a tool for converting prisoners into Volksgenossen, or members of the national community. And during the war, forced labor was crucial to armaments production. "Ability to work" meant life or d…
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Rethinking the Gulag: identities, sources, legacies
"The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile settlements, which stretched across vast geographic expanses, included varied insti…
"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ul…
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ult…
Bonded labour: global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st ce…
by Casa de Altos Estudios Don Fernando Ortiz, Universität zu Köln, Forms of Bonded Labour, University of Cologne), Coolies, Forced Work, Migration and Transculturation, University of Havana)
fromGlobal studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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, So…