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…
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…
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…
"What do prisoner workers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelli…
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"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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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…
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…
