Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Gwyn Campbell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1317320077

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This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.


Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Gwyn Campbell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317320085

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This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.


Bonded Labour

Bonded Labour

Author: Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2016-12-31

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3839437334

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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 Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today.


Bonded Labor

Bonded Labor

Author: Siddharth Kara

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0231158483

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Focusing on the pervasive, deeply entrenched, and wholly unjust system of bonded labor, Kara delves into this ancient and ever-evolving mode of slavery, which ensnares roughly six out of every ten slaves in the world. He provides a thorough economic, historical, and legal overview of bonded labor, describes the violent enslavement of millions, and follows supply chains directly to Western consumers.


On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

Author: Philip Gooding

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1009100742

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The first history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century.


The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia

The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia

Author: Gwyn Campbell

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 134995957X

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In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system—and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of unfree labour in Africa and Asia along with its contemporary manifestations. It takes an innovative longue durée perspective in order to link the local and global, the past and present. Contributors trace shifting forms of forced labour in the region since circa 1800, connecting punctual shocks such as environmental crisis, conflict, market instability, and crop failure to human security threats such as impoverishment, violence, migration, kidnapping, and enslavement. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia, with important implications for the fight against modern-day bondage and human trafficking.


Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World

Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Gwyn Campbell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 3319700286

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Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and human trafficking. Contributors trace intricate links between environmental forces, human suffering, and political conditions, examining how they have driven people into servile labour and shaped the IOW economy. They illuminate the complexities of IOW bondage with case studies, drawn chiefly from the mid-eighteenth century, on Sudan, Cape Colony, Réunion, China, and beyond, where chattel slavery (as seen in the Atlantic world) represented only one extreme of a wide spectrum of systems of unfree labour. The array of factors examined here, including climate change, environmental disaster, disease, and market forces, are central to IOW history—and to modern-day forms of human bondage.


Bondage

Bondage

Author: Alessandro Stanziani

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1782382518

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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. Finally, Stanziani demonstrates that this world did not collapse after the French Revolution or the British industrial revolution, as is commonly assumed, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.


European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850

European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850

Author: Richard B. Allen

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0821444956

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Between 1500 and 1850, European traders shipped hundreds of thousands of African, Indian, Malagasy, and Southeast Asian slaves to ports throughout the Indian Ocean world. The activities of the British, Dutch, French, and Portuguese traders who operated in the Indian Ocean demonstrate that European slave trading was not confined largely to the Atlantic but must now be viewed as a truly global phenomenon. European slave trading and abolitionism in the Indian Ocean also led to the development of an increasingly integrated movement of slave, convict, and indentured labor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the consequences of which resonated well into the twentieth century. Richard B. Allen’s magisterial work dramatically expands our understanding of the movement of free and forced labor around the world. Drawing upon extensive archival research and a thorough command of published scholarship, Allen challenges the modern tendency to view the Indian and Atlantic oceans as self-contained units of historical analysis and the attendant failure to understand the ways in which the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds have interacted with one another. In so doing, he offers tantalizing new insights into the origins and dynamics of global labor migration in the modern world.