{"product_id":"global-agricultural-workers-from-the-17th-to-the-21st-century-9789004524941","title":"Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover the period from the early modern to the present – a period when the emergence and consolidation of capitalism has transformed rural areas all over the globe. Three questions have guided the approach and the structure of this volume. First, how and why have peasant families managed to survive under conditions of advancing commercialisation and industrialisation? Second, why have coercive labour relations been so persistent in the agricultural sector and third, what was the role of states in the recruitment of agricultural workers?     Contributors are: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Josef Ehmer, Katherine Jellison, Juan Carmona, James Simpson, Sophie Elpers, Debojyoti Das, Lozaan Khumbah, Karl Heinz Arenz, Leida Fernandez-Prieto, Rachel Kurian, Rafael Marquese, Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza, Rogério Naques Faleiros, Alessandro Stanziani, Alexander Keese, Dina Bolokan, and Janina Puder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures, Tables and Maps   Notes on Contributors   Introduction    Rolf Bauer  and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk    section 1  The Agrarian Question and the Resilience of the Peasant Family Farms  1 Peasant Households under Pressure Women’s Work and the Cultivation System on Java, 1830–1870    Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk    2 Peasant Life Courses and Social Mobility in Serfdom The Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries    Josef Ehmer    3 Escape from New York Gender and the Rural Safety Valve, 1856–1884    Katherine Jellison    4 Landlords and Sharecroppers in Wine Producing Regions Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800–1940    Juan Carmona and James Simpson    5 Co-producers of Architects The Role of Farm Women in the Reconstruction of Farmhouses in the Netherlands after the Second World War    Sophie Elpers    6 Hoeing the Land and Shifting the Cultivator Labour, Land and Environment in the Eastern Himalayas    Debojyoti Das    7 Agrarian Change in the Hills of Northeast India The Unlikely Story of Shifting Agriculture    A. Lozaanba Khumbah    section 2  Coerced Labour Relations in the Global Countryside  8 Cassava, Cacao and Catechesis Agriculture and Extractivism in the Jesuit Missions on the Amazon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries    Karl Heinz Arenz    9 A Laboratory of Colonial Agricultural Modernity Environment, Sugar and Slavery in Cuba    Leida Fernandez-Prieto    10 Dynamics of the Plantationocene Finance Capital and the Labour Regime on British Colonial Plantations in Nineteenth-Century South Asia    Rachel Kurian    11 The Mistress of the Coffee Markets of the World Slavery in Brazil and the Kangany System in Ceylon, c. 1815–1878    Rafael Marquese    12 A Contract with Many Facets Sharecropping and Credit Interlinkages in Southwestern Brazilian Plantations, 1840–1940    Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza and Rogério Naques Faleiros    section 3  State Intervention and Agricultural Labour Mobility  13 Vulnerability beyond Revolutions Rural Workers, Former Slaves and Indentured Migrants in the French Empire    Alessandro Stanziani    14 Between Community Development Effort and Hidden Colonial Forced Labour The Long History of “Communal Labour” in Gold Coast\/Ghana, 1927–2010    Alexander Keese    15 Agricultural Labour Regimes of Im_Mobilisation On the Legacies of Internal and External Colonisation within Europe    Dina Bolokan    16 Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers The Oppressive Exploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry    Janina Puder    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210853802327,"sku":"9789004524941","price":104.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-agricultural-workers-from-the-17th-to-the-21st-century-9789004524941","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}