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Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920 book cover

1st Edition

Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920

Edited By Kay Saunders Copyright 1984
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many... Read more

List of Tables;  List of Maps and Illustrations;  Acknowledgements;  List of Contributors;  Introduction;  1. The West Indies and Indentured Labour Migration - The Jamaican Experience William A. Green  2. The Impact of Indentured Immigration on the Political Economy of British Guiana Alan H. Adamson  3. Indentured Labour in Trinidad 1880-1917 Marianne D. Ramesar  4. From Slavery to Indenture: Forced Labour in the Political Economy of Mauritius 1834-1867 M.D. North-Coombes  5. Labouring Men and Nothing More: Some Problems of Indian Indenture in Fiji Brij V Lal  6. South Indian Labour in Malaya, 1840-1920: Asylum Stability and Involution Ravindra K. Jain  7. 'Kings' in Brass Crescents. Defining Aboriginal Labour Patterns in Colonial Queensland Raymond Evans  8. The Workers' Paradox: Indentured Labour in the Queensland Sugar Industry to 1920 Kay Saunders  9. Chinese Indentured Labour in the Transvaal Gold Mining Industry 1904-1910 Peter Richardson;  Index

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Kay Saunders

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