Description: Making of a Periphery : How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor, Hardcover by Bosma, Ulbe, ISBN 0231188528, ISBN-13 9780231188524, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region with products that found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrantsfrom the region working all over the world. How did a prosperous region become a peripheral one? 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 anda long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy. Bosma finds that the region's contact with colonial trading powers during the early nineteenth century led to improved health care and longer life spans as the Spanish and Dutch colonial governments began to vaccinate their subjects against smallpox. The resulting abundance of workers ushered in extensive migration toward emerging labor-intensive plantation and mining belts. European powers exploited existing patron-client labor systems with the intermediation of indigenous elites and non-European agents to develop extractive industries and plantation agriculture. Bosma shows that these trends shaped the postcolonial era as these migration networks expanded far beyond the region"--
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Book Title: Making of a Periphery : How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass E
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Making of a Periphery : How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Asia / Southeast Asia, Demography, Economic History, Economic Conditions, Labor, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 22.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Author: Ulbe Bosma
Item Width: 6.6 in
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History Ser.
Format: Hardcover
