Includes bibliographical references and index.

English indentured servants and the Trans-Atlantic colonial economy / David Souden -- Why did contract labour not work in the nineteenth-century United States? / Charlotte Erickson -- The Cornish diaspora of the nineteenth century / Gill Burke -- Into servitude / Hugh Tinker -- The importation of British Indians into Surinam (Dutch Guiana), 1873-1916 / Pieter Emmer -- The nature and origins of Pacific Islands labour migration to Queensland, 1863-1906 / Adrian Graves -- Capitalism and migrant labour in southern Africa / Martin Legassick and Francine de Clercq -- Coolies, peasants, and proletarians / Peter Richardson -- The political economy of labour migration to settler societies / Donald Denoon -- The imperial workplace / Colin Newbury.

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