Since the late nineteenth century, job seeking has become increasingly linked to
organizations and facilities that offer information on vacancies, offer placement services, or …

The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context
dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour …

This article explores the convergence of pesticide toxicity with caste inequalities and the
lingering legacies of colonialism on cardamom plantations in the Cardamom Hills, India …

This chapter argues that Girmitiya scholarship suffers from three blind spots: it has ignored
the period when British Indians were primarily peasants. That is remarkable because it was …

This chapter explains changes in the course of more than a century in the manner of
recruitment of indentured Chinese labour. It began in the early to mid nineteenth century …

Migration has been very common throughout India's history. India has been home to
important resources across the globe since the 1930s (Hutton 1986; Khadria et al. 2008; …

This chapter compares Chinese labour indenture with its Indian and Javanese counterparts.
Its main comparanda are the role played in recruitment and indenture by the state, the …

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This chapter is a history of the penal sanction (with reference mainly to Chinese migrant
labourers) in the East Indies, from its origins in Java in the early nineteenth century to its …

This book has two aims, complementary and of equal weight. One is to tell the story of
Chinese labour migration to Sumatra in the Netherlands East Indies in the late-colonial …