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An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time, typically three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and ...
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Indian indenture system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indian indenture system started from the end of slavery in 1834 and continued until 1920, when thousands of Indians were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for ...
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Indentured labour was the means by which many British people emigrated to North America during the colonial era, and in the 19th–early 20th centuries it was used to recruit Asian workers for employment elsewhere in European colonial empires.
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Hutchinson’s encyclopedia explains that “Indentured labour was the means by which many British people emigrated to North America during the colonial era”, and adds that “in the 19th- early 20th centuries it was used to recruit Asian workers for employment elsewhere in European colonial empires.”...
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Students and postdocs carry out the day-to-day work in laboratories serving as cheap, well trained labour. Moreover the nature of discovery often seems to require big numbers: far better to have six postdocs working on several projects, in case one of them gets results that will ensure funding for the laboratory for years.
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This first period of European indentured labour had ended by the early nineteenth century, however the abolition of slavery within the next few decades by European countries created a labour shortage in most of their overseas colonies, and planters looked primarily to Asia to fill the gap.
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5.4 Resistance to Indentured Labour & Abolitio ... China, for example, initiated a more assertive foreign policy in the 1870s, which included greater regulation of emigration and the eventual abolition of indentured labour in order to restore its national honour abroad.
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A Wisdom Archive on indentured labour ... A selection of articles related to indentured labour ... indentured labour: Encyclopedia - Caste...
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For instance a great part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century witnessed a regular migration of Indian workers as indentured labour for plantations or mines in the British colonies;
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; II: Indentured Labor and the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean ... There can be no history of Trinidad and Guyana that is not also a history of the humanisation of those landscapes by Indian labour."
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