 | The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor Subjects: Foreign workers Southeast Asian -- History; Labor market -- Southeast Asia -- History; Southeast Asia -- Population -- History; Southeast Asia -- Dependency on foreign countries -- History; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Southeast; In The Making of a Periphery , Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Ulbe Bosma is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History and professor of international comparative social history at the Free University of Amsterdam. His publications include Being "Dutch" in the Indies: A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500-1920 (2008) and The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia: Industrial Production, 1770-2010 (2013). |
