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Title Indentured labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920 / edited by Kay Saunders
Published London : Croom Helm, [1984]
London ; Canberra : Croom Helm, 1984
©1984
©1984

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 MELB  331.542 Sau/Ili  AVAILABLE
Description <24>, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Contents The West Indies and indentured labour migration / William A. Green -- The impact of indentured immigration on the political economy of British Guiana/ Alan H. Adamson -- Indentured labour in Trinidad, 1880-1917 / Marianne D. Ramesar -- From slavery to indenture / M.D. North-Coombes -- Labouring men and nothing more / Brij V. Lal -- South Indian labour in Malaya, 1840-1920 / Ravindra K. Jain -- "Kings" in brass crescents / Raymond Evans --The workers' paradox / Kay Saunders -- Chinese indentured labour in the Transvaal gold mining industry, 1904-1910 / Peter Richardson
Summary Annotation pending
Analysis British colonies Immigrant indentured personnel Economic conditions 1834-1920
British colonies Immigrant indentured personnel Economic conditions, 1834-1920
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Indentured servants -- Commonwealth countries.
Indentured servants -- Colonies -- Great Britain.
Indentured servants -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Sugarcane industry -- Australia -- Queensland -- History.
Foreign workers -- Commonwealth countries.
Indentured servants -- History.
Indentured servants -- Commonwealth countries -- History.
Indentured servants -- Commonwealth countries -- Economic conditions.
Foreign workers -- Commonwealth countries -- Economic conditions.
Indentured servants -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
Genre/Form History.
Author Saunders, Kay, 1947-
LC no. 84168642
ISBN 070992321X :