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A Multinational and its Labor Force: The Dutch East India Company, 1595–1795

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2005

Jan Lucassen
Affiliation:
International Institute for Social History

Abstract

This essay focuses on the emergence of an international labor market connecting Europe with southern Africa and south and southeast Asia, showing the intertwining of commercialization and proletarianization in the institution that created and coordinated perhaps the most important international labor market connecting Europe to the Far East.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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