Social Histories of Work in Asia
Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits From an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java
1st Edition
By Jan Breman
January 10, 2026
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 ...
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
1st Edition
By Christine Moll-Murata
January 09, 2026
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It...