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Touts
Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea
Buch von Enrique Martino
Sprache: Englisch

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Touts 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.

Touts 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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XII
271 S.
12 s/w Illustr.
2 farbige Illustr.
12 b/w and 2 col. ill.
ISBN-13: 9783110754643
ISBN-10: 3110754649
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Martino, Enrique
Hersteller: Oldenbourg
Abbildungen: 12 b/w and 2 col. ill.
Maße: 20 x 156 x 235 mm
Von/Mit: Enrique Martino
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.08.2022
Gewicht: 0,536 kg
Artikel-ID: 120720297
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XII
271 S.
12 s/w Illustr.
2 farbige Illustr.
12 b/w and 2 col. ill.
ISBN-13: 9783110754643
ISBN-10: 3110754649
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Martino, Enrique
Hersteller: Oldenbourg
Abbildungen: 12 b/w and 2 col. ill.
Maße: 20 x 156 x 235 mm
Von/Mit: Enrique Martino
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.08.2022
Gewicht: 0,536 kg
Artikel-ID: 120720297
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