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Social question in the twenty-first century: a global view
Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of the Social Question. In 1942 William Beveridge called them the “giant evils” while diagnosing the crises produced by the emergence of industrial society. More recently, during the final quarter of the twentieth century, the global spread of neoliberal policies …
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- 9780520302402
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- xii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 306.3 BRE s
Mobilizing labour for the global cofee market
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation…
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- 9789048527144
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- 413p.: ill.
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- 950 BRE m
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