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Labour Mobility and Colonial and Forced Labour Regimes in Indonesia: A Long‐Term View

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Incorporated into the global economy to provide the commodities for core capitalist countries, Indonesia experienced a variety of predominantly unfree labour regimes that connected local societies to global markets. These regimes varied from slavery, coerced labour imposed by colonial authorities, to extensive patterns of leverage employers ...
Ulbe Bosma
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Children, Families and Social Security: Eleanor Rathbone's Welfare Legacy

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 5, Page 873-910, September 2025.
In The Disinherited Family, published in 1924, Eleanor Rathbone argued powerfully for ‘family endowment’, involving the direction of collective resources towards family support via state‐provided family allowances. This ground‐breaking work influenced many, including the architect of Britain's postwar welfare state, William Beveridge, who included ...
Neville Harris
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1848: European revolutions [PDF]

, 2012
Discusses the various ways in which the European revolutions of 1848-9 contributed to the shaping of modern democratic ideas and practices.
Rapport, M.
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Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2015-2044, September 2025.
Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
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How to Survive Without Commons? Conflicts Over Forests and Coping Strategies of the Poor in the Post-Feudal Period in the Northeastern Part of the Habsburg Empire

International Journal of the Commons
The article deals with the conflicts over common forests and peasants’ common rights in the first decades after the abolition of serfdom in the north-eastern part of the Austrian Empire (Galicia).
Joachim Popek
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Налоговая политика и практика возрождения денежных налогов в Советской России (1921–1924) и их актуальность [PDF]

, 2017
В статье анализируются политика и практика Советской России (СССР) в период возрождения денежных налогов. Это послужило фундаментом для налогового бюджета и финансовых ресурсов в ходе индустриализации СССР.
Pushkareva, V. M., Пушкарева, В. М.   +1 more
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010

History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.
ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Views of the Baltic German Press on the Traditions: of Other Nationalities in Riga’s Music Life in the 1870s–1880s: The Influence of the Political Context

Musicology Today
The history of German presence in the territory of Latvia began in the thirteenth century, when Germans arrived here as crusaders. From that time until the nineteenth century, they played the dominant role in the economic and political life of the region.
Jaunslaviete Baiba
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Police Department in the Kuznetsk, Barnaul, and Biysk Districts (Parishes) in the Second Half of the XIX Century

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2020
The research featured the changes associated with the abolition of serfdom, which affected the law enforcement system of the state and, most of all, the police. In Siberia, police reforms were conducted several years after they had been introduced in the
Yu. N. Moskvitin
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ILO Minimum Estimate of Forced Labour in the World [PDF]

, 2005
Prepared for the ILO by Patrick Belser, Michaelle de Cock, and Farhad Mehran, this is a technical document that provides a detailed account of the methodology used in the ILO’s first minimum estimate of forced labour in the world, prepared in 2005.
Belser, Patrick, de Cock, Michaëlle, International Labour Organization, Mehran, Farhad   +3 more
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