Description |
xl, 244 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents |
[P]Refacing Capitalism and Confrontation in 1995 -- 1. Introduction: Plantation Perspectives -- 2. The Early Contours of Labor Control: Corporate Capital and Contract Coolies -- 3. Plantation Workers in Protest: The Politics of Violence -- 4. War and Revolution: A View from the Estate Barracks -- 5. Ambivalent Radicalism: The Estate Labor Movement, 1950-1965 -- 6. The Contemporary Contours of Labor Control, 1965-1979 -- 7. Conclusion: Registers of Resistance |
Summary |
Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870 - 1979 is a fascinating ethnographic history that analyzes how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders. In a new preface to this edition, Ann Laura Stoler reflects on her book as a historical document, exploring its timing at the cusp of a more general shift in the anthropology of political economy and colonial studies. This volume will prove invaluable to students across a range of disciplines, including not only history and anthropology but political science and sociology |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index |
Subject |
Agricultural laborers -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- History.
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Agricultural laborers -- Political activity -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- History.
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Economic anthropology -- Indonesia -- Sumatra.
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Plantations -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- History.
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Social conflict -- Indonesia -- Sumatra -- History.
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SUBJECT |
Sumatra (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85130407 -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670
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LC no. |
95023698 |
ISBN |
0472082191 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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