Bonded labour : : global and comparative perspectives (18th-21st century) / / edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf [and four others].

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection
• TeilnehmendeR: Damir-Geilsdorf, Sabine,; Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2018: Backlist Collection; Forms of Bonded Labour (2014 : University of Cologne)
• Author: Coolies, Forced Work, Migration and Transculturation (2015 : University of Havana)
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 pages) :; illustrations.

Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Af...