Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java

Jan Breman

book: Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2015

Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market

Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java

Jan Breman

In the series Social Histories of Work in Asia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527144

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Breman Jan :

Jan Breman is emeritus professor of comparative sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He continues his scholarly research, mainly focused on work and labour in Asia, as Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and as a Honorary Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam

Reviews

Winner of the ICAS Social Sciences 2017 Book Prize!

"It is a testimony to the humane breadth of concerns in Breman’s treatment of this aspect of global commodity production that questions such as these keep arising. Apart from studies by R.E. Elson and Radin Fernando, Java’s colonial historiography has been dominated recently by a near-obsessive concern with sugar. Breman’s in-depth study is hence a timely corrective — but it is, of course, very much more than that. It is a cliché to say that a book will be of great interest to both the "lay" reader and the specialist scholar. Th is book is precisely that, however, clearly set-out and handsomely produced by its Dutch publishers." - G. Roger Knight, The University of Adelaide Asian Studies Review, 2017 Vol. 41

"Breman has made an important contribution to the study of Javanese social and economic history. - Anne Booth, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies

"I have little hesitation in placing Professor Breman's monograph at the top of my personal books of the year list. A careful, detailed, authoritative, and scholarly reconstruction of the forced cultivation of coffee in West Java, Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market is quite simply a masterpiece." - Internationales Asienforum

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of contents Open Access Download PDF	7
Prologue: The need for forced labour Open Access Download PDF	11
I. The company as a territorial power Open Access Download PDF	17
II. The introduction of forced cultivation Open Access Download PDF	57
III. From trading company to state enterprise Open Access Download PDF	95
IV. Government regulated exploitation versus private agribusiness Open Access Download PDF	129
V. Unfree labour as a condition for progress Open Access Download PDF	169
VI. The coffee regime under the cultivation system Open Access Download PDF	211
VII. Winding up the Priangan system of governance Open Access Download PDF	255
VIII. Eclipse of the coffee regime from the Sunda highlands Open Access Download PDF	303
Epilogue: Servitude as the road to progress Open Access Download PDF	347
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	369
List of abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	375
List of illustrations Open Access Download PDF	377
Archival sources Open Access Download PDF	381
Index of names Open Access Download PDF	403

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 440
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 17
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
- Other: 8 color plates, 17 halftones, 9 line drawings
Keywords: socicolonialism- coffee - forced labour -; cultivation system - Java

eBook

Published: October 20, 2015
ISBN: 9789048527144