“Indentured labour” was but one of various guises under which individuals were conscripted to provide labour in the development of the “capitalist” mode of production, which developed as ...

Indentured labourers were bound to agreements to work for a set amount of time, and while they were paid, the use of so-called “coolies” was brutal and known in the 19th century as “a new ...

Caribbean nations are set to demand that Britain make reparations for indentured labour in addition to slavery, in a major expansion of the campaign to address colonialism.

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.

Opinion: H-1B visa holders are far from cheap, indentured labor. Sen. Bernie Sanders' recent remarks are just one example of the shockingly uninformed opinions emerging about the immigration program.

It is significant to note that of the 152 184 indentured workers that arrived in South Africa from 1860 to 1911, 101 468 or 66.6% of indentured Indians disembarked from the port city of Madras ...

AS the countdown begins for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival in Port of Spain, great optimism fills the air. This ...

In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be the first site for what ...

Initially, the female indentured were married and came to join their husbands. In the 1840s, married females accounted for around 60–80 per cent of the new arrivals. The remaining women were single.

Recruitment of indentured labourers: To address the labour shortage, Mauritian planters turned to India, which offered a vast pool of cheap labour.The recruitment process was often deceitful and ...

Ashwin Trikamjee, president of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, said: “At long last the arrival of indentured labourers in 1860 will be properly recorded by way of a monument.