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Sharma, Umesh, and Helen Irvine. "The social consequences of control: accounting for indentured labour in Fiji 1879-1920." Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 13, no. 2 (June 20, 2016): 130–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qram-04-2015-0039.

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Purpose This is a study of the social consequences of accounting controls over labour. This paper aims to examine the system of tasking used to control Indian indentured workers in the historical context of Fijian sugar plantations during the British colonial period from 1879 to 1920. Design/methodology/approach Archival data consisting of documents from the Colonial Secretary’s Office, reports and related literature on Indian indentured labour were accessed from the National Archives of Fiji. In addition, documented accounts of the experiences of indentured labourers over the period of the study gave voice to the social costs of the indenture system, highlighting the social impact of accounting control systems. Findings Accounting and management controls were developed to extract surplus value from Indian labour. The practice of tasking was implemented in a plantation structure where indentured labourers were controlled hierarchically. This resulted in their exploitation and consequent economic, social and racial marginalisation. Research limitations/implications Like all historical research, our interpretation is limited by the availability of archival documents and the theoretical framework chosen to examine these documents. Practical implications The study promotes a better understanding of the practice and impact of accounting controls within a particular institutional setting, in this case the British colony of Fiji. Social implications By highlighting the social implications of accounting controls in their historical context, we alert corporations, government policy makers, accountants and workers to the socially damaging effects of exploitive management control systems. Originality/value The paper contributes to the growing body of literature highlighting the social effects of accounting control systems. It exposes the social costs borne by indentured workers employed on Fijian sugar plantations.

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Bates, Crispin, and Marina Carter. "Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora." Journal of Migration History 7, no. 2 (August 23, 2021): 143–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00702003.

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Abstract This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks are critical to an understanding of the operation of indenture, that the appraisal of their functioning and effectiveness necessitates the construction of a counter narrative to the ‘official’ archive, and suggests a new means of adapting the trust discourse to this field of study through an assessment of how these knowledge and information networks were disseminated and by whom.

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STANZIANI, ALESSANDRO. "Local Bondage in Global Economies: Servants, wage earners, and indentured migrants in nineteenth-century France, Great Britain, and the Mascarene Islands." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 4 (February 28, 2013): 1218–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x12000698.

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AbstractThis paper compares the definitions, practices, and legal constraints on labour in Britain, France, Mauritius, and Reunion Island in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It argues that the way in which indentured labour was defined and practised in the colonies was linked to the definition and practice of wage labour in Europe and that their development was interconnected. The types of bondage that existed in the colonies were extreme forms of the notion, practices, and rules of labour in Europe. It would have been impossible to develop the indenture contract in the British and French empires if wage earners in Britain and France had not been servants. The conceptions and practices of labour in Europe and its main colonies influenced each other and were part of a global dynamic.

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Shunmugaraja, J. "British Colonialism and Tamil Society: Obliterations and Exodus." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 7, no. 3 (January 1, 2023): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v7i3.5834.

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The British were the forerunners of publicizing indentured labour system in the globe. In the beginning the structure was tentatively observed in their American Colony Jamestown. Initially, the whites had also comprised with the indentured labourers category. After the black population arrived in 1619, who had subdued by the indentured labour system were mercilessly hounded by their white masters. Slavery, thus, replaced indentured system in the New World. In Mauritius, such an exigency had arisen when slavery was abolished in 1834. The exploitative experiences of their past urged them to take to the system of indentured labour to ensure prompt supply of labour for their plantation work. The slaves emancipated in the wake of slavery abolition in 1834 were in no mood to opt for plantation work. Therefore the white planters in Mauritius had to look to India for their alternative source of labour supply. While commencing the study period have restricted from 1834 to 1922. 1834 was the year in which slavery was abolished in Mauritius. 1922 was the year in which a comprehensive Act streamlining the old process of immigration was adopted by the Indian legislature. The paper has been classified into four parts. The first, second and third parts of the paper are very comprehensively discussing about the negative effects of the British colonialism, degradation of the economic state and the ground reality of the 19th century Tamil society. The concluding part of the paper has made an attempt to give an outline about the 19th century colonial Tamil Diaspora of the world.

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Maurer, Jean-Luc. "The Thin Red Line between Indentured and Bonded Labour: Javanese Workers in New Caledonia in the Early 20th Century." Asian Journal of Social Science 38, no. 6 (2010): 866–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853110x530778.

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AbstractThis short article presents a relatively unknown historical experience of indentured labour having seen thousands of Javanese workers being sent from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of WWII by the colonial authorities of the Netherlands Indies to New Caledonia, a French colony in the south-west Pacific. Being drawn from a comprehensive study of historical sociology written in French and published in 2006, it summarises the reasons behind this odd labour migration movement and focuses on the recruitment and working conditions of these indentured labourers. Its main argument is to show that there are many points of comparison between past and present forms of labour migration and that one finds some elements of bondage in both of them, the red line being therefore very thin indeed between indentured labour of the colonial period and present day globalisation migrant workers recruitment and employment practices.

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Kraijo, Matthijs. "Destined to Leave Hindustan for Suriname?" TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 19, no. 3 (December 13, 2022): 37–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.52024/tseg.10894.

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This article investigates the post-indenture choice of Hindustani indentured labour migrants in Suriname either to settle in Suriname or repatriate to India between 1873 and 1940. Based on extensive demographic statistical analyses and the autobiography of Rahman Mohammed Khan, this research concludes that familial relations, especially those formed in Suriname, had a strong effect on the relative share of Hindustanis settling themselves in Suriname after their contract period. Additionally, this study convincingly proves that the Surinamese context had an important effect on the development of the individual life courses of Hindustanis.

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Haines, Julia Jong. "Mauritian indentured labour and plantation household archaeology." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 55, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 509–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2020.1841966.

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Thu Huong, Lê. "A New Portrait of Indentured Labour: Vietnamese Labour Migration to Malaysia." Asian Journal of Social Science 38, no. 6 (2010): 880–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853110x530787.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the recruitment procedure and the gradual loss of autonomy of low-skilled migrant workers in international labour migration, by using the example of Vietnamese workers’ trajectories to Malaysia. It argues that debates on indentured labour and all other forms of bonded labour remain relevant today as new manifestations of the practice are now concealed behind extensive economic exchanges and inter-state economic cooperation. A detailed study of the process of Vietnamese labour migration shows how migratory trajectories that start from ‘voluntary’ indebtedness eventually lead to a status of subordinate and immobilised guest workers in Malaysia. The interrelations between debt and contracts play here a central role. Encouraged by the promising messages of local recruiters and the official support for migration, candidate workers readily consent to sign the triple contracts that will lead them to work in Malaysia. In the process, they gradually get entangled in a web of obligations towards their recruiter, their state (bank) and their employer, leading to severe restrictions in their autonomy over life and work in Malaysia.

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Brown, Laurence. "Experiments in indenture: Barbados and the segmentation of migrant labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2005): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-90002500.

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Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the policies and decisions of the governors and local assemblies regarding emigration. He points out how the sugar industry's need for labourers remained dominant in the policies, but that the drought in 1863 caused privations and unrest among the labourers, resulting in more flexibility regarding allowance of indentured emigration schemes and recruitment, such as toward St Croix and Antigua, and later toward British Guiana, and to a smaller degree Jamaica. He discusses how this led to rivalries regarding labour immigrants between colonies, and further attempts at restrictions on labour emigration and recruitment in Barbados.

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Brown, Laurence. "Experiments in indenture: Barbados and the segmentation of migrant labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 79, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2008): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002500.

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Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the policies and decisions of the governors and local assemblies regarding emigration. He points out how the sugar industry's need for labourers remained dominant in the policies, but that the drought in 1863 caused privations and unrest among the labourers, resulting in more flexibility regarding allowance of indentured emigration schemes and recruitment, such as toward St Croix and Antigua, and later toward British Guiana, and to a smaller degree Jamaica. He discusses how this led to rivalries regarding labour immigrants between colonies, and further attempts at restrictions on labour emigration and recruitment in Barbados.

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Vahed, Goolam. "The Protector, Plantocracy, and Indentured Labour in Natal, 1860–1911." Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 1 (2018): 101–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.101.

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Between 1860 and 1911, a total of 152,641 Indian indentured workers arrived in the then British Colony of Natal. The first group of workers who returned home in 1871 complained of ill-treatment and abuse by employers and the Indian government refused to sanction further allotments of labourers until the Natal government investigated their complaints. The ensuing Coolie Commission of 1872 called for the appointment of a Protector of Indian Immigrants, as one of several recommendations. The Natal Government duly complied as the Colony was desperate for labour. Such officials were also appointed in other colonial contexts around this time. Instances of worker abuse, however, continued throughout the period of indenture in Natal, notwithstanding some observers’ claim that the appointment of a Protector was a watershed moment for bonded labour. It appears that the vastness of the area under the Protector’s jurisdiction and the enormous power of planters made it difficult for Protectors to balance the needs of workers and employers. But workers found creative ways to use the office of the Protector to resist the system; and, on occasion, the abuse was so great that the Protector was forced to intervene publicly to safeguard the rights of workers and the integrity of his office. In focusing on the Protector, this article makes a contribution to the emerging literature on empire that focuses on connections and networks across colonies and the agency and actions of ordinary people.

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Martino, Enrique. "Dash-peonage: the contradictions of debt bondage in the colonial plantations of Fernando Pó." Africa 87, no. 1 (January 27, 2017): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000693.

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AbstractDashin pidgin English means an ancillary gift to an exchange. What happened when thedashbecame attached to the indentured labour contracts that the Spanish Empire brought from Cuba to their last colony, Spanish Guinea? On the island of Fernando Pó, which came to be almost wholly populated by Nigerian labour migrants, the conditional gift in the form of a large wage advance produced a particularly intense contradiction. In the historiography of unfree labour, the excess wage advance is thought to create conditions for the perpetuation of bondage through debt. However, in imperial contexts, the wage advance did not generate compliance and immobility; exactly the opposite – it produced unprecedented waves of further escalation and dispersed flight. Thedashwas pushed up by workers themselves and relayed by informal recruiters. Together they turned this lynchpin of indentured labour and debt peonage into a counter-practice that almost led to the collapse of the plantations in the 1950s. The trajectories of thedashled to a more pointed version of the foundational thesis of global labour history: namely, that it was actually free labour, not unfree labour, that was incompatible with labour scarcity-ridden imperial capitalism.

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Carter, Marina. "Indian Indentured Migration and the Forced Labour Debate." Itinerario 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 52–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300022695.

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The migrants who left India to work on colonial sugar plantations in the nineteenth century have been variously categorised as neo-slaves or as voluntary black settlers. This paper assesses some of the recent historical claims and revisionist interpretations of Indian indentured labour and takes up a number of themes based on the Mauritian case to highlight important aspects of this colonial labour diaspora.

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Meer, Fatima. "Indentured labour and group formations in apartheid society." Race & Class 26, no. 4 (April 1985): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030639688502600403.

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Bose, Pinaki, Ryan A. Compton, and Arnab K. Basu. "Paying for freedom: Indentured labour and strategic default." Economic Modelling 89 (July 2020): 502–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.11.023.

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Naidoo, Pralini. "Joy in the Dirt." Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal 7, no. 2 (December 4, 2022): 369–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.18432/ari29688.

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I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to South Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods and an alien workforce from India, to optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication and mastery over land, plant, and people (Indigenous and indentured). I have never felt alien here. Why was that? What about the indenture stories of people, land and plant, beyond empire’s mastery and control—my ancestral wild places? And was there room within these wild places to heal colonial wounds across our ethnic and racial barriers? What was lost? Could my PhD2 research transcripts address some of those losses? This paper contains poems that emerged from PhD research interviews, my fieldnotes, my father's memoirs, and letters from my ancestral archives. A poetic lens gave me a decolonial language to inspect the archives and transcripts with some of these questions in mind.

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De Silva, Kevin. "Continuities in Capitalism: Exploitation of Indentured and Migrant Labour." Caribbean Quilt 1 (November 18, 2012): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/caribbeanquilt.v1i0.19045.

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Kevin De Silva is a third year student at the University of Toronto. He is completing his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Caribbean Studies, winning in 2010 the United Network of Indo-Caribbean Toronto Youths (U.N.I.T.Y.) Scholarship. He is a member of the Caribbean Studies Students’ Union, and is chief editor of Caribbean Quilt. He has also contributed to the Stabroek News in Guyana on issues concerning environmental politics and diaspora.

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Carter, Marina. "The transition from Slave to indentured labour in Mauritius." Slavery & Abolition 14, no. 1 (April 1993): 114–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440399308575086.

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BATES, CRISPIN, and MARINA CARTER. "Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration*." Modern Asian Studies 51, no. 2 (March 2017): 462–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000238.

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AbstractThe sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)—foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies—is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars’ multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 Samita Sen, conversely, developed Rajnarayan Chandavarkar's argument about the use of labour intermediaries in colonial India to reveal how, in the case of the Assam tea plantations, the nexus between contractors and sirdars belies the ‘benign’ role often accorded to the intermediary within narratives from the tea industry. This article provides examples from the overseas labour destinations in the Indian Ocean region, particularly Mauritius, to further develop and nuance the debate, through an assessment of the complexity of sirdari roles in the colonial Indian labour diaspora.

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Grubb, Farley. "Does Bound Labour Have To Be Coerced Labour?: The Case of Colonial Immigrant Servitude Versus Craft Apprenticeship and Life-Cycle Servitude-in-Husbandry." Itinerario 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 28–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300022683.

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Why are some forms of bound labour more coercive than others? Specifically, why was European indentured servitude in America more coercive than craft apprenticeship or life-cycle servitude-in-husbandry, despite the close similarity and derivative nature of these institutions? Concepts recently advanced in labour economics offer some preliminary answers to these questions. This investigation is exploratory in nature and focuses on three types of voluntary long-term labour contracts. However, the arguments and conclusions presented here may have wider applications and be useful for future research on other forms of bound labour which involve consent and contract.

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Mathias, Regine. "Japan in the Seventeenth Century: Labour Relations and Work Ethics." International Review of Social History 56, S19 (September 20, 2011): 217–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859011000502.

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SummaryIn Japan, the transformation of labour relations from medieval forms of serfdom, lifelong service, and corvée labour to short-term contracts and wage labour was already under way by the seventeenth century. In the second half of the seventeenth century short-term employment based on contracts became common. Indentured labour gradually changed into wage labour. Government policies included enabling greater mobility for the workers, while also trying to set limits to migration flow to the cities. Some Confucian scholars welcomed this new form of labour relations; others condemned them. The few sources about the work ethics of waged workers imply mockery about their loose morals and work attitudes, but also complaints about workloads and exploitation.

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Quinlan, Michael, and Tracey Banivanua-Mar. "Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade." Labour History, no. 95 (2008): 260. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516327.

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Anderson, Clare. "Convicts and Coolies: Rethinking Indentured Labour in the Nineteenth Century." Slavery & Abolition 30, no. 1 (February 25, 2009): 93–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440390802673856.

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MALHERBE, V. C. "Indentured and Unfree Labour in South Africa: Towards an Understanding." South African Historical Journal 24, no. 1 (May 1991): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582479108671684.

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Sweet, Julie Anne. "Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies." Journal of American History 109, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 656–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaac373.

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van der Linden, Marcel. "The Growth of a European Network of Labor Historians." International Labor and Working-Class History 90 (2016): 266–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547916000156.

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The first conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) took place on December 14–16, 2015, in Turin, Italy. It was, for the time being, the culmination of a development that has been going on for a number of years. Increasingly European labor historians work together across borders. Since the 1970s the number of research projects comparing two or more national cases has grown considerably, while in recent years transnational connections have attracted more attention as well. Likewise, labor historians now take Europe's imperial, colonial, and neocolonial past very seriously, and therefore the labor dimension of that past is explored more intensely (chattel slavery, indentured labor, convict labor, and so on).

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Adams, Ron. "Indentured labour and the development of plantations in Vanuatu : 1867-1922." Journal de la Société des océanistes 42, no. 82 (1986): 41–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/jso.1986.2822.

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Major, Andrea. "‘Hill Coolies’: Indian Indentured Labour and the Colonial Imagination, 1836–38." South Asian Studies 33, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2017.1300374.

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Harris, Karen L. "Sugar and Gold: Indentured Indian and Chinese Labour in South Africa." Journal of Social Sciences 25, no. 1-3 (October 2010): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2010.11892873.

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Faruqee, Ashrufa. "Conceiving the coolie woman : Indentured labour, Indian women and Colonial discourse." South Asia Research 16, no. 1 (April 1996): 61–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026272809601600104.

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Beckles, Hilary McD. "Plantation Production and White “Proto-Slavery”: White Indentured Servants and the Colonisation of the English West Indies, 1624-1645." Americas 41, no. 3 (January 1985): 21–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007098.

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Two dominant features of agricultural history in the English West Indies are the formation of the plantation system and the importation of large numbers of servile labourers from diverse parts of the world—Africa, Europe and Asia. In Barbados and the Leeward Islands, the backbone of early English colonisation of the New World, large plantations developed within the first decade of settlement. The effective colonisation of these islands, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) in 1624, Barbados 1627, Nevis 1628, Montserrat and Antigua 1632, was possible because of the early emergence of large plantations which were clearly designed for large scale production, and the distribution of commodities upon the world market; they were instrumental in forging an effective and profitable agrarian culture out of the unstable frontier environment of the seventeenth century Caribbean. These plantations, therefore, preceded the emergence of the sugar industry and the general use of African slave labour; they developed during the formative years when the production of tobacco, cotton and indigo dominated land use, and utilised predominatly European indentured labour. The structure of land distribution and the nature of land tenure Systems in the pre-sugar era illustrate this. Most planters who accelerated the pace of economic growth in the late 1640's and early 1650's by the production of sugar and black slave labour, already owned substantial plantations stocked with large numbers of indentured servants.

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Ribeiro da Silva, Filipa. "Political Changes and Shifts in Labour Relations in Mozambique, 1820s–1920s." International Review of Social History 61, S24 (December 2016): 115–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859016000468.

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AbstractThis article examines the main changes in the policies of the Portuguese state in relation to Mozambique and its labour force during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stemming from political changes within the Portuguese Empire (i.e. the independence of Brazil in 1821), the European political scene (i.e. the Berlin Conference, 1884–1885), and the Southern African context (i.e. the growing British, French, and German presence). By becoming a principle mobilizer and employer of labour power in the territory, an allocator of labour to neighbouring colonial states, and by granting private companies authority to play identical roles, the Portuguese state brought about important shifts in labour relations in Mozambique. Slave and tributary labour were replaced by new forms of indentured labour (initially termed serviçais and latter contratados) and forced labour (compelidos). The period also saw an increase in commodified labour in the form of wage labour (voluntários), self-employment among peasant and settler farmers, and migrant labour to neighbouring colonies.

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RAHIKAINEN, MARJATTA. "Compulsory Child Labour: Parish Paupers as Indentured Servants in Finland, c. 1810–1920." Rural History 13, no. 2 (October 2002): 163–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793302000092.

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This article challenges the interpretations by Viviana Zelizer and Clark Nardinelli of bound labour by farmed-out parish pauper children. Using the case of Finland, supported by the example of Sweden, it is argued that the exploitation of parish pauper children may have increased in the nineteenth century due to increasing adoption of a monetary economy in the countryside. As the productivity of a growing child fell short of his or her consumption, while the poor relief authorities strove to keep the compensation for this as low as possible, peasant farmers solved the discrepancy by over-exploiting farmed-out children. In both countries a system of auctioning-out paupers was applied, with no principal difference made between children and adults. The Finnish and Swedish cases suggest that industrial child labour and bound labour by parish pauper children many have reflected a similar attitude to the children of both the poor and the labouring classes.

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Knight, G. Roger. "Coolie or Worker? Crossing the Lines in Colonial Java, 1780–1942." Itinerario 23, no. 1 (March 1999): 62–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s016511530000543x.

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In the historical context of colonial Indonesia, Coolie as a way of designating labour has been associated primarily with indentured, migrant, plantation workers in the so-called Outer Islands, principally Sumatra, where coolies from Java and southern China were the mainstay of the workforce on the island's tobacco, rubber and palm oil ‘estates’ from the 1880s through to the end of the colonial era more than half a century later.

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Singh, Anand. "Skills Transfer in the Context of Migration: A Case for a Redefinition through the South African Landscape." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 15, no. 2 (July 2015): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1501500201.

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This paper is about the notion of skills transfer in South Africa and the influences that emanate from outside the country. It takes the position that while the concept is recent, skills transfers actually predate its introduction into academic discourse. This is because the skills that slaves and indentured labourers carried with them across continents were not ascribed with the recognition it deserved. The discussion here emphasizes that slavery and indentured labour were characteristically imbued with skills that were requisite to build the infrastructures for which colonial empires became so famous, but they were denied the recognition. Most often concepts such as “unskilled labour” serve as a justification for exploitative conditions under which workers are employed. But beyond the history of these issues is the transference of skills that are also not given due recognition if they are not classified as “certified expertise” through theoretical and sometimes practical training from recognized institutions. In recognizing this contemporary feature among migrants and the skills that they carry with them, this paper highlights the relevant legislative devices that are meant to guide recruitment in South Africa, and suggests that much can be learnt from the technical and entrepreneurial skills that foreigners carry with them into South Africa as instructive lessons for employment among the masses of the unemployed.

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Matloff, Norman. "Immigration and the tech industry: As a labour shortage remedy, for innovation, or for cost savings?" Migration Letters 10, no. 2 (May 31, 2013): 201–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v10i2.144.

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The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workers--remedying labour shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"--are investigated, using data on wages, patents, and R&D work, as well as previous research and industry statements. The analysis shows that the claims of shortage and outstanding talent are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, it is shown that the primary goals of employers in hiring foreign workers are to reduce labour costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is causing an ‘Internal Brain Drain’ in STEM.

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Emmer, P. C. "Caribbean Plantations and Indentured Labour, 1640–1917: A Constructive or Destructive Deviation from the Free Labour Market?" Itinerario 21, no. 1 (March 1997): 73–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300022713.

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In surveying the negative effects of the expansion of Europe it seems difficult to find an area which was worse affected than the Caribbean. The autochthonous population of Amerindians had been decimated on a scale unknown elsewhere. Rather than becoming an attractive refuge for migrant Europeans, the Caribbean became the home of plantation agriculture, which ruthlessly destroyed the existing environment and small scale farming. To top it all, the Caribbean plantations needed a constant influx of labourers. The success of Caribbean exports created a paradox: the region was in constant and increasing need of manpower while at the same time the number European migrants was decreasing rapidly

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Rai, Ram Prasad. "Displacement as a Diasporic Experience in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (July 15, 2017): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v5i2.18435.

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The term ‘displacement’ has a strong connection with diaspora literature that studies the experiences of pain and pleasure of the people in the diaspora. People in the diaspora do not have comfortable life. Since they are away from their homeland, it is not easy for them to get integrated into the new main stream society. Because of several variations such as language, culture, custom, religion, belief etc., they are to face difficulties in the host-land. They come across the feeling of displacement through alienation, homelessness, identity crisis etc. that are interconnected in the diaspora. Being a generation of indentured labor immigrant family, V. S. Naipaul himself has gone through such paining experiences that are indirectly expressed through the life experiences of the characters in his writing. While reading about Naipaul’s life story and of Mr. Biswas in the novel A House for Mr. Biswas, it can be understood that they sound similar strongly. In the novel, Naipaul shows how Mr. Biswas more importantly along with other people as the generation of indentured labour immigrant parents in Trinidad suffer from homelessness, displacement, alienation etc. This paper mainly focuses on the experiences of displacement along with homelessness, alienation etc. faced by Mr. Biswas and other characters as they are from Indian diasporic community.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5(2) 2017: 25-30

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Beckles, Hilary McD, and K. O. Laurence. "A Question of Labour: Indentured Immigration into Trinidad and British Guiana 1875-1917." American Historical Review 101, no. 4 (October 1996): 1320. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2169853.

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Dressler, Nicole K. "Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies by Anna Suranyi." William and Mary Quarterly 79, no. 2 (April 2022): 350–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wmq.2022.0020.

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Hvid, Mirjam Louise. "Indentured servitude and convict labour in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies, 1671–1755." Scandinavian Journal of History 41, no. 4-5 (October 4, 2016): 541–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2016.1210890.

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Vahed, Goolam. "‘An evil thing’: Gandhi and Indian Indentured Labour in South Africa, 1893–1914." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 654–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1608002.

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Shlomowitz, Ralph. "Mortality and indentured labour in Papua (1885–1941) and New Guinea (1920–1941)∗." Journal of Pacific History 23, no. 1 (April 1988): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223348808572576.

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Allen, Richard B. "The Indentured Archipelago: Experiences of Indian Labour in Mauritius and Fiji, 1871–1916." Agricultural History 97, no. 2 (May 1, 2023): 347–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00021482-10338121.

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Cullen, Rose. "Empire, Indian Indentured Labour and the Colony: The Debate Over ‘coolie’ Labour in New South Wales, 1836–1838." History Australia 9, no. 1 (January 2012): 84–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2012.11668404.

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Adams, Estherine. "“At Work, in Hospital, or in Gaol”: Women in British Guiana’s Jails, 1838–1917." Labour History 125, no. 1 (October 25, 2023): 85–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/labourhistory.2023.21.

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This article argues that labour, particularly female labour, was central to the expansion of colonial Guiana’s post-emancipation penal system between 1838 and 1917. It highlights the intersection of coerced labour and colonialism in the post-emancipation period, by centring the lives of incarcerated women to understand the nature of state governance in colonial spaces. It argues the plantocracy leveraged the expansion of prisons not to control crime but to control labour. As the newly constructed prisons filled, colonial and local authorities explained increased incarceration rates as a legitimate response to increased crime, supported by an evangelical rhetoric that promoted incarceration to encourage reform when it was accompanied by religious instruction and education. In practice, authorities used the prison system as a means of labour discipline, labour extraction and as a threat to secure future docility. Female indentured labourers convicted of petty crimes, including breach of contract, were often sentenced to work on plantations; creole women worked on sea defence construction and maintenance. A common refrain in the colony was that free labour could not be obtained. The malleability of prisoners as a labour force was thus attractive to the government, as prisoners could be moved, deployed and disciplined in ways that were not possible for free labour.

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Hand, Felicity. "The Fight for Land, Water and Dignity in Lindsey Collen’s The Malaria Man and Her Neighbour." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 82 (2021): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.82.05.

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The novels of South-African born Mauritian writer and activist Lindsey Collen expose a historical continuum of class exploitation, ranging from the slave past of the country including both pre-abolition African slavery together with indentured labour from the Indian subcontinent to post-independence sweat-shop toil, ill-paid domestic labour and exploited agricultural workers. Her latest novel to date, The Malaria Man and Her Neighbours (2010) probes this continuing class conflict and queries mainstream notions of heteronormativity. Access to water and land will be seen to lie behind the murder of the four main characters and the subsequent popular reaction. Collen insists that the underprivileged can become empowered through union, that participation and joint, communal effort can still make a difference.

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Emmer, P. C. "IX. Asians Compared: Some Observations regarding Indian and Indonesian Indentured Labourers in Surinam, 1873-1939." Itinerario 11, no. 1 (March 1987): 149–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115300009438.

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The drive towards the abolition of the slave trade at the beginning of the 19th century was not effective until the 1850s. It was perhaps the only migratory intercontinental movement in history which came to a complete stop because of political pressures in spite of the fact that neither the supply nor the demand for African slaves had disappeared.Because of the continuing demand for bonded labour in some of the plantation areas in the New World (notably the Guiana's, Trinidad, Cuba and Brazil) and because of a new demand for bonded labour in the developing sugar and mining industries in Mauritius, Réunion, Queensland (Australia), Natal (South Africa), the Fiji-islands and Hawaii an international search for ‘newslaves’ started.

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SHARMA, JAYEETA. "‘Lazy’ Natives, Coolie Labour, and the Assam Tea Industry." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 6 (December 23, 2008): 1287–324. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x08003831.

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AbstractThis paper considers the creation of a ‘coolie’ work-force for the Assam tea industry and the local dimensions of tea plantation enterprise. While the industry has flourished through its use of migrant labour and export markets for tea, it has retained important connections with the locality. The Assam tea industry was a predominantly colonial enterprise manned by white British planters. It allowed participation, albeit in subordinate and dependent roles, by local peasants and gentry, though mainly based on the labour of migrant ‘coolies’ recruited on indentured contracts. The prominence of ‘imported’ coolie workers has obscured the significance of various local groups as well as the tea industry's importance in the local ‘imagination’. Despite the gradual development of nationalist antagonism towards the white ‘Planters' Raj’, tea enterprise retained a hallowed place for the Assamese middle classes, as tea workers continued as a racialized labouring class.

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Manik, Sadhana. "Transnational Teacher Migration from South Africa: A New Form of Indentured Labourers?" Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 7, no. 1 (January 2007): 39–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x0700700103.

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Globalisation of the world markets has paved the way for the movement of people with scarce skills across national boundaries with relative ease. Professionals have been extremely susceptible, given their particular knowledge and skills base. The trend is for professionals from developing countries to fill the gaps in the labour market in developed countries. As a developing country, South Africa (SA) is losing valuable assets, namely professionals (teachers, doctors, and nurses) to developed countries. Presently there exists a corpus of literature on migration but debates on international South-North labour migration have been one sided, focusing on the consequences for receiving societies (de Haas, 2005:1269). The result of this emphasis is the neglect of an understanding of the causes and consequences of migration in sending countries. Furthermore, there is a distinct dearth of literature on teacher migration in the context of SA despite claims from British education authorities that they are aggressively recruiting SA teachers (Special Assignment, SABC3, 23-04-04, 21h30). This paper highlights transnational migration determinants for South African teachers by presenting the demographic profiles of exiling teachers and their motivations for leaving SA. There appears to be some similarities in this migration to the arrival of indentured Indian Labourers in 1860 in Natal although the latter was a north-south migration. The need to understand migrant teachers’ decision-making is salient as a step in creating avenues for discourse on the production of teachers for export. It will also be of relevance in attracting ex-patriots back to their home country.

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