Over the last century, North Sumatra has been the site of one of the most intensive and successful pursuits of foreign agricultural enterprise of any developing country. Colonial expansion by Europeans resulted in overt--sometimes violent-- conflict between capital and labor, as workers resisted plantation interests. Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979 is a fascinating ethnographic history that analyzes how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.
- ISBN13 9780472082193
- Publish Date 16 October 1995 (first published 1 December 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University of Michigan Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English