Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia
Title Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia PDF eBook
Author Henry Berstein
Publisher Routledge
Pages 314
Release 2019-08-15
Genre History
ISBN 131784520X

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This volume originated in a conference on 'Capitalist Plantations in Colonial Asia', held at the Centre for Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam and Free University of Amsterdam in September 1990. The contributions to this collection focus on the production of rubber, sugar, tea, and several less strategic plantation crops, in colonial Indochina, Java, Malaya, the Philippines, India, Ceylon, Mauritius and Fiji (although geographically anomalous, both the latter are included because of the centrality to their sugar plantations of indentured labour from India).

Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia

Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia
Title Plantations, Proletarians and Peasants in Colonial Asia PDF eBook
Author E. Valentine Daniel
Publisher
Pages 299
Release 1992
Genre Indentured servants
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Special issue on plantations, proletarians and peasants in Colonial Asia

Special issue on plantations, proletarians and peasants in Colonial Asia
Title Special issue on plantations, proletarians and peasants in Colonial Asia PDF eBook
Author E. Valentine Daniel
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Pages 301
Release 1992
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Plantations, Peasants and Proletarians in Colonial Asia

Plantations, Peasants and Proletarians in Colonial Asia
Title Plantations, Peasants and Proletarians in Colonial Asia PDF eBook
Author E. Valentine Daniel
Publisher
Pages 299
Release 1992
Genre
ISBN 9780714634678

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In the Shadows of the Tropics

In the Shadows of the Tropics
Title In the Shadows of the Tropics PDF eBook
Author James S. Duncan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 229
Release 2016-05-23
Genre Science
ISBN 1317117735

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In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.

Labour in Southeast Asia

Labour in Southeast Asia
Title Labour in Southeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Becky Elmhirst
Publisher Routledge
Pages 417
Release 2004-05-07
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1135791376

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In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks, and contrasting labour regimes, histories and cultures. The contributions show the importance of critically examining both the complex nature of global-local links and the particular ways economic processes are refracted through culture and locality in southeast Asia. Clustered around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of meaning."--Jacket

Women Plantation Workers

Women Plantation Workers
Title Women Plantation Workers PDF eBook
Author Shobita Jain
Publisher Routledge
Pages 193
Release 2020-08-25
Genre Gardening
ISBN 1000324273

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This pioneering collection of essays brings together a description and analysis of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations world-wide. The plantation remains a formidable force in many areas of the world and new trends towards tree farming call for further examination of its agriculture. Women have, in the past, constituted a considerable precentage of the work force in this milieu, and continue to do so.Using specific case studies of historical and contemporary plantations, an account is given of the history of female labour, focusing on the colonial and post-colonial eras. The essays examine reasons for women's degraded status and emphasize, in particular, issues relating to migrant workers.The gradual move away from traditional family roles is, to some extent, reflected in variations in the position of the female plantation worker. However, where inequalities in class and status continue to characterize plantation life, capitalist and patriarchal control prevails.Both chilling and bracing, the sufferings of plantation labourers may seem remote to most of us, but they are still very much part of the contemporary world. Providing a close insight into the lives of the female protagonists, these essays have given an opportunity for their stories to be heard.