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024 7 _a10.1515/9783110755923
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110755923
035 _a(DE-B1597)586250
035 _a(OCoLC)1343104628
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
_cDE-B1597
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050 0 0 _aHD4875.E6
_bM378 2022
072 7 _aHIS054000
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082 0 4 _a331.73
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMartino, Enrique
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTouts :
_bRecruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea /
_cEnrique Martino.
264 1 _aMünchen ;
_aWien :
_bDe Gruyter Oldenbourg,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2022
300 _a1 online resource (XII, 271 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
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490 0 _aWork in Global and Historical Perspective ,
_x2509-8861 ;
_v14
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tList of Maps and Illustrations --
_tIntroduction: Smugglers and Strangers --
_t1 Indentured Contract Labor --
_t2 Take or Give: Recruiting Techniques --
_t3 Panya: Contractual Inversions --
_t4 Dash: Contractual Doubling --
_t5 Lumpen-brokers --
_tConclusion: Making Colonial Labor Markets --
_tArchives --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aTouts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)
650 0 _aContract system (Labor)
_zEquatorial Guinea
_zFernando Po
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aEmployees
_xRecruiting
_zEquatorial Guinea
_zFernando Po
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aIndentured servants
_zEquatorial Guinea
_zFernando Po
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 4 _aGolf von Guinea.
650 4 _aPlantagenwirtschaft.
650 4 _aSklavenhandel.
650 4 _aÄquatorialguinea.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Social History.
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653 _aEquatorial Guinea.
653 _aNigeria.
653 _acontract labour.
653 _afree and unfree labour.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755923
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110755923
856 4 2 _3Cover
_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110755923/original
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