Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920

First published in 1984. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many respects indentured labour can be regarded as a replacement of the slave labour system. This book is comprehensive and far-reaching in its scope and the complex issues which it raises.

List of Tables; List of Maps and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. The West Indies and Indentured Labour Migration - The Jamaican Experience William A. Green 2. The Impact of Indentured Immigration on the Political Economy of British Guiana Alan H. Adamson 3. Indentured Labour in Trinidad 1880-1917 Marianne D. Ramesar 4. From Slavery to Indenture: Forced Labour in the Political Economy of Mauritius 1834-1867 M.D. North-Coombes 5. Labouring Men and Nothing More: Some Problems of Indian Indenture in Fiji Brij V Lal 6. South Indian Labour in Malaya, 1840-1920: Asylum Stability and Involution Ravindra K. Jain 7. 'Kings' in Brass Crescents. Defining Aboriginal Labour Patterns in Colonial Queensland Raymond Evans 8. The Workers' Paradox: Indentured Labour in the Queensland Sugar Industry to 1920 Kay Saunders 9. Chinese Indentured Labour in the Transvaal Gold Mining Industry 1904-1910 Peter Richardson; Index