Bonded Labour: Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th-21st Century)

ISBN-13: 9783837637335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str.

Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf; Ulrike Lindner; Gesine M?ller

Opis

After slavery, forms of indentured labor met global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labor. The famous "coolie trade" - mainly Asian laborers transferred to colonial Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, as well as to the Arab world - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labor in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and free' wage labor. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of unfree labor relations from the 18th century to the present day.

Recenzje

"Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen." Hermann Mückler, Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 147 (2017)

O autorze

Damir-Geilsdorf, SabineSabine Damir-Geilsdorf is Professor for Middle Eastern Studies and Director of the Institute of Middle Eastern and South East Asian Studies at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in Islamic Studies with a thesis on the Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) and received her postdoctoral qualification degree (Habilitation) with a study on Palestinian narratives of the Arab-Israeli war 1948. She has carried out field research in various countries of the Middle East and has published widely on transformations of religious concepts, Islamism, (forced) migration in the Middle East, Islam in Germany, and popular culture in Middle Eastern societies.