TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COOLIES»
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COOLIES»
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coolies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
coolies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
A young boy hears the story of his great-great-great-grandfather and his brother who came to the United States to make a better life for themselves helping to build the transcontinental railroad.
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Coolies, Capital and Colonialism: Studies in Indian Labour ...
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history.
Rana P. Behal, Marcel van der Linden, 2006
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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of ...
With the stories of these workers, Coolies and Cane advances an interpretation of emancipation that moves beyond U.S. borders and the black-white racial dynamic.
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Emigration from India: the Export of
Coolies, and Other ...
Documents concerning the 1837 enquiry into the exploitation of South Asian labourers in Mauritius and British Guiana, published in 1842.
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 2011
White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation and the harshest of conditions.
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Coolies and mandarins: China's protection of overseas ...
This pioneering work in the field of Overseas Chinese Studies provides a clear and coherent picture of China's overseas Chinese policy during the last years of the Ch'ing dynasty.
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The Coolie Speaks: Chinese Indentured Laborers and African ...
While the demand for coolies in Cuba continued to rise, obtaining coolies was
complicated by the new opposition to coolie traffic. As a result, coolies were
smuggled out through the Portuguese and Spanish colonies of Macao and the ...
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Netherlands India: A Study of Plural Economy
Meanwhile, the increase of factories in Java had led in 1905 to a Factories Act.
One great difficulty in the supervision of labour has been the predominance of
Chinese among the coolies. In the mines the coolies are still almost all Chinese ;
but ...
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THE SESSIONAL PAPERS PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, ...
The causes of its failure I attribute partly to the very depressed circumstances of
the planters at the time of its being brought into force, and the general conviction
that the Coolies would not remain on the estates, consequently inducing a small
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COOLIES»
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Coolie currency goes on display
The coolies were paid in porcelain pieces that could be used only in Singapore - instead of Straits Settlements currency - as their paymasters ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
Families pick up pieces after raging fire
Most of them eke out a livelihood by working as coolies, while some are street vendors selling plastic utensils. “I kept Rs. 50,000 in the house ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Revolver, parangs in showdown at 1868 bungalow
Then Gardens superintendent James Murton had withheld the wages of Javanese coolies working there as they had allegedly stolen ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
THE ARAB AND THE CAMEL – ITTEWAGE GETA KABALLEWA …
... not the tale of Arab and the camel? Look what has happened in Fiji.The coolies brought by the British empire became 51% of the population. «Lankaweb, Jul 15»
May Oon Reminds Singapore of Migrant Roots With "OVER/TIME"
When picturing Singapore's shimmering skyline and modern infrastructure, few stop to contemplate the hardship of the city-state's “coolies” or ... «BLOUIN ARTINFO, Jul 15»
The big issue: Wrecking ball
... ended, virtually at one swell foop, the “tradition” of sending rice farmers to Bangkok for half a year to drive samlors or act as market coolies. «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
Can NDB achieve for BRIC nations what Bretton Woods did for the …
Most of the victors killed or maimed there were local sepoys or coolies. And, of course, India, then part of the Empire, never got a paisa from ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
Taxis and technology
The winners are those who hold the levers of technology while the losers, like the taxi drivers, end up working as the “coolies' of tech ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
WONG: Flying a flag for the right reasons
These coolies — the word derives from the Chinese characters for ku li, or bitter strength — were paid 25 to 50 per cent less to dynamite the ... «TheChronicleHerald.ca, Jun 15»
The hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic …
Their outcast social status has combined with their identities as manual labourers—also known as Tamil coolies—to perpetuate their economic ... «Open Democracy, Jun 15»
