Conditions on Sugar Estates in Colonial Java: Comparisons with Deli

In September 1990 the Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam (CASA) organized an International Workshop on “Plantation Labour in Colonial Asia”. Most of the presented papers dealt with plantations where the workforce had to be imported from distant regions, sometimes even from abroad. The type of human...

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Published in:Journal of Southeast Asian studies (Singapore) 1993-09, Vol.24 (2), p.268-284
Main Author: Wertheim, Wim F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agriculture (sugar)
Agriculture, land tenure, rural space
Asia
Colonial history
Colonialism
Comparative Study
Delicatessens
Economics
Estates
Ethnology
History
Indonesia
Indonesia (Java)
Java
Java (Computer program language)
Java (Programming language)
Labor force
Morphological source materials
Peasant class
Plantation life
Plantations
Porters
Social aspects
Social conditions & trends
Sociology
Sugar
Sugar crops
Sugar industry
Sugar plantations
Sugars
Villages
Workforce
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Summary:In September 1990 the Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam (CASA) organized an International Workshop on “Plantation Labour in Colonial Asia”. Most of the presented papers dealt with plantations where the workforce had to be imported from distant regions, sometimes even from abroad. The type of human community originating from such recruitment policies often resulted in a typical frontier society, characterized by extreme harshness on the part of the white planters, and by a sense of utter alienation and isolation among the Asian labourers.
ISSN:0022-4634
1474-0680
DOI:10.1017/S0022463400002630