Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market / Jan Breman.

• VerfasserIn: Breman, Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2015]; ©[2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Social histories of work in Asia.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages) :; colour illustrations, colour maps, colour portraits.
• Notes: Includes index.

Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilized land and labor, why they turned to force cultivation, and what effects the brutal system they installed had on the economy and society.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Prologue: The need for forced labour -- I. The company as a territorial power -- II. The introduction of forced cultivation -- III. From trading company to state enterprise -- IV. Government regulated exploitation versus private agribusiness -- V. Unfree labour as a condition for progress -- VI. The coffee regime under the cultivation system -- VII. Winding up the Priangan system of governance -- VIII. Eclipse of the coffee regime from the Sunda highlands -- Epilogue: Servitude as the road to progress -- Glossary -- List of abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Archival sources -- Index of names