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

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

Social Histories of Work in Asia

Jan Breman

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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 beca...

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