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Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea

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dc.contributor.authorMartino Martin, Enrique
dc.coverage.spatialBerlin
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-02T10:34:53Z
dc.date.available2026-03-02T10:34:53Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractTouts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in today’s Equatorial Guinea, 100 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. The Spanish ruled this often-ignored island from the mid-nineteenth century until 1968. A booming plantation economy led to the arrival of several hundred thousand West African, principally Nigerian, contract workers on steamships and canoes. In Touts, Enrique Martino traces the confusing transition from slavery to other labor regimes, paying particular attention to the labor brokers and their financial, logistical, and clandestine techniques for bringing workers to the island. Martino combines multi-sited archival research with the concept of touts as "lumpen-brokers" to offer a detailed study of how commercial labor relations could develop, shift and collapse through the recruiters’ own techniques, such as large wage advances and elaborate deceptions. The result is a pathbreaking reconnection of labor mobility, contract law, informal credit structures and exchange practices in African history.en
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dc.identifier.citationMartino, Enrique. Touts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea. Berlín: De Gruyter, 2022. ISBN: 9783110754643. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755923
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110755923
dc.identifier.eisbn978-3-11-075592-3
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-11-075464-3
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/31988
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Oldenbourg
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.relation.departmentHistoria Social y del Pensamiento Político
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject59 Ciencia Política
dc.titleTouts: Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guineaen
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