Contact

Ulbe Bosma
ubo@iisg.nl
International Institute of Social History
P.O. Box 2169
1000 CD Amsterdam

Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Rachel Steely
rsteely@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University
35 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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2020 Jun 19

Book Launch (virtual): Global Gold Production Touching Ground

2:30pm to 3:45pm
Location:
LINK to register: http://iob-online-application.com/machform/view.php?id=100233
Virtual Book Launch for Global Gold Production Touching Ground: Expansion, Informalization, and Technological Innovation. In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe...... Read more about Book Launch (virtual): Global Gold Production Touching Ground
Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes - Climate, Commodities and Sustainability (Cuba: Vivir Entre Ciclones - Clima, Mercancías y Sostenibilidad)

This documentary film explores the impacts of extreme weather events and global commodity frontiers on the natural environment and local communities in Cuba's Caibarién-Remedios region, where Hurricane Irma - one of the most...
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The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor

Columbia University Press, 2019.

Ulbe Bosma.

Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more...
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