Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century / / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Rolf Bauer.
"Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present - a period when the emerge...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Global Social History Series ; Volume 50 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in global social history ;
Volume 50. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Peasant households under pressure : women's work and the cultivation system on Java, 1830-1870 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
- Peasant life courses and social mobility in serfdom : the Baltic Provinces of the Russian empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Josef Ehmer
- Escape from New York : gender and the rural safety valve, 1856-1884 / Katherine Jellison
- Landlords and sharecroppers in wine producing regions : Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800-1940 / Juan Carmona and James Simpson
- Co-producers of architects : the role of farm women in the reconstruction of farmhouses in the Netherlands after the Second World War / Sophie Elpers
- Hoeing the land and shifting the cultivator : labour, land and environment in the eastern Himalayas / Debojyoti Das
- Agrarian change in the hills of northeast India : the unlikely story of shifting agriculture / A. Lozaanba Khumbah
- Cassava, cacao and catechesis : agriculture and extractivism in the Jesuit missions on the Amazon in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Karl Heinz Arenz
- A laboratory of colonial agricultural modernity : environment, sugar and slavery in Cuba / Leida Fernandez-Prieto
- Dynamics of the plantationocene : finance capital and the labour regime on British colonial plantations in nineteenth-century South Asia / Rachel Kurian
- The mistress of the coffee markets of the world : slavery in Brazil and the kangany system in Ceylon, c. 1815-1878 / Rafael Marquese
- A contract with many facets : sharecropping and credit interlinkages in southwestern Brazilian plantations, 1840-1940 / Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza and Roge´rio Naques Faleiros
- Vulnerability beyond revolutions : rural workers, former slaves and indentured migrants in the French empire / Alessandro Stanziani
- Between community development effort and hidden colonial forced labour : the long history of "communal labour" in Gold Coast/Ghana, 1927-2010 / Alexander Keese
- Agricultural labour regimes of im_mobilisation : on the legacies of internal and external colonisation within Europe / Dina Bolokan
- Cheap labour, (un)organised workers : the oppressive exploitation of labour migrants in the Malaysian palm oil industry / Janina Puder.