Bonded labour : : global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st century) / / edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf [and four others].

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection
• TeilnehmendeR: Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine,; Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection; Forms of Bonded Labour (2014 : University of Cologne)
• Author: Coolies, Forced Work, Migration and Transculturation (2015 : University of Havana)
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 pages) :; illustrations.

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, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.

»Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen.« Hermann Mückler, Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 147 (2017)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Global Variants of Bonded Labour 9 Coolies - Asiáticos and Chinos: Global Dimensions of Second Slavery 35 Indentured Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa (1880-1918): Circulation of Concepts between Imperial Powers 59 Coolie Transformations - Uncovering the Changing Meaning and Labour Relations of Coolie Labour in the Dutch Empire (18th and 19th Century) 83 Variants of Bonded Labour in Precolonial and Colonial Southeast Asia 103 "His Original Name Is . . ." REMAPping the Slave Experience in Saudi Arabia 133 Contract Labour and Debt Bondage in the Arab Gulf States. Policies and Practices within the Kafala System 163 Re-presenting and Narrating Labour: Coolie Migration in the Caribbean 191 Cultural Forms of Representation of 'Coolies': Khal Torabully and his Concept of Coolitude 219 Authors 229