Tappe, Oliver (2016). Coolie chains: global commodities, colonialism and the question of labour. ERDE, 147 (3). S. 205 - 209. BERLIN: GESELLSCHAFT ERDKUNDE BERLIN. ISSN 0013-9998

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Abstract

The analysis of global commodity chains calls for a close attention to the question of labour - in colonial times as well as in the present. Since the economy of the French domains in Indochina and New Caledonia relied on labour-intensive resource extraction (rubber, minerals), the colonial administration and French enterprises envisaged a system of coolie labour that implied the transfer of thousands of Vietnamese labourers from densely populated Tonkin to the newly established plantations and mines. The emergence of global commodity chains linked to European industrialization in the 19th and early 20th century thus entailed considerable social transformations in the colonies as a result of changing labour regimes.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Tappe, OliverUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-288204
DOI: 10.12854/erde-147-16
Journal or Publication Title: ERDE
Volume: 147
Number: 3
Page Range: S. 205 - 209
Date: 2016
Publisher: GESELLSCHAFT ERDKUNDE BERLIN
Place of Publication: BERLIN
ISSN: 0013-9998
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
Geography; Geography, Physical; Geosciences, MultidisciplinaryMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28820

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