Research Catalog

Title

Touts : recruiting indentured labour in the Gulf of Guinea / Enrique Martino.

Author

Martino, Enrique

Publication

• Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

x, 271 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa's largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today's Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters' own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history."--

Series Statement

Work in global and historical perspective, 2509-8861 ; volume 14

Uniform Title

Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 14.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Indentured servants > Equatorial Guinea > Fernando Po > History > 19th century
• Employees > Recruiting > History > Equatorial Guinea > Fernando Po > 19th century
• Contract system (Labor) > Equatorial Guinea > Fernando Po > History > 19th century
• Employees > Recruiting
• Indentured servants
• Spanish colonies
• Spain > Colonies > Africa
• Africa
• Equatorial Guinea > Fernando Po

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-265) and index.

Call Number

ReCAP 22-11554

ISBN

• 9783110754643
• 3110754649

LCCN

2022937455

OCLC

1280599818

Author

Martino, Enrique, author.

Title

Touts : recruiting indentured labour in the Gulf of Guinea / Enrique Martino.

Publisher

Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Work in global and historical perspective, 2509-8861 ; volume 14

Work in global and historical perspective ; v. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-265) and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-11554