174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
When the Khmer Rouge abolished currency and markets in 1975, starving Cambodians created underground exchanges in labor camps throughout the country, bartering luxury items for food and other necessities, while simultaneously undermining the regime’s ideological... Read more
Introduction 1. Revolution and the Labor Camps 2. The Abolition of Currency and Its Ideological Roots 3. Origins of the Barter Economy 4. Substitute Currencies: Rice and Gold 5. Other Substitute Currencies 6. Perils and Punishments 7. Chinese Khmers in the Underground Economy 8. Khmer Women and the Barter Economy 9. Base People versus New People 10. Cadres, Watches, and Lighter Chains 11. Aftermath Conclusion
Biography
Scott Pribble is a San Francisco-based historian, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century Cambodia.
