Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century

Rolf Bauer, Ph.D., (2018), University of Vienna, is an economic and social historian at that same university.He is the author of The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India (Brill, 2019).Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Ph.D., (2007), is Professor of economic and social history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Among other publications, she authored the monograph Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java. Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections, 1830-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

• List of Figures, Tables and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction  Rolf Bauer and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerksection 1The Agrarian Question and the Resilience of the Peasant Family Farms1 Peasant Households under Pressure Women’s Work and the Cultivation System on Java, 1830–1870Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk2 Peasant Life Courses and Social Mobility in Serfdom The Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesJosef Ehmer3 Escape from New York Gender and the Rural Safety Valve, 1856–1884Katherine Jellison4 Landlords and Sharecroppers in Wine Producing Regions Beaujolais, Catalonia and Tuscany, 1800–1940Juan Carmona and James Simpson5 Co-producers of Architects The Role of Farm Women in the Reconstruction of Farmhouses in the Netherlands after the Second World WarSophie Elpers6 Hoeing the Land and Shifting the Cultivator Labour, Land and Environment in the Eastern HimalayasDebojyoti Das7 Agrarian Change in the Hills of Northeast India The Unlikely Story of Shifting AgricultureA. Lozaanba Khumbahsection 2Coerced Labour Relations in the Global Countryside8 Cassava, Cacao and Catechesis Agriculture and Extractivism in the Jesuit Missions on the Amazon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesKarl Heinz Arenz9 A Laboratory of Colonial Agricultural Modernity Environment, Sugar and Slavery in CubaLeida Fernandez-Prieto10 Dynamics of the Plantationocene Finance Capital and the Labour Regime on British Colonial Plantations in Nineteenth-Century South AsiaRachel Kurian11 The Mistress of the Coffee Markets of the World Slavery in Brazil and the Kangany System in Ceylon, c. 1815–1878Rafael Marquese12 A Contract with Many Facets Sharecropping and Credit Interlinkages in Southwestern Brazilian Plantations, 1840–1940Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza and Rogério Naques Faleirossection 3State Intervention and Agricultural Labour Mobility13 Vulnerability beyond Revolutions Rural Workers, Former Slaves and Indentured Migrants in the French EmpireAlessandro Stanziani14 Between Community Development Effort and Hidden Colonial Forced Labour The Long History of “Communal Labour” in Gold Coast/Ghana, 1927–2010Alexander Keese15 Agricultural Labour Regimes of Im_Mobilisation On the Legacies of Internal and External Colonisation within EuropeDina Bolokan16 Cheap Labour, (Un)Organised Workers The Oppressive Exploitation of Labour Migrants in the Malaysian Palm Oil IndustryJanina PuderIndex