Contrasting Consumption: Household Income and Living Standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870–1940

Meerkerk, Elise van Nederveen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10528-0_5

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“…1 1. For a more detailed analysis of these household budgets see: Van Nederveen Meerkerk and Boter (2015). The Dutch household budgets accounted for representative groups of rural and urban households around 1900 and in the 1930s.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, the prices of consumer goods declined considerably in the Netherlands during this period. Our own research on labouring households' budgets shows that in rural, but especially in urban areas, living standards rose fast between the late nineteenth century and the 1930s (Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Boter, 2015). Although this was partly related to more general price drops in the world market, the lowering of excises on basic consumables of course favoured the lower classes in society, who, compared to richer citizens, had to spend a relatively large share of their income on foodstuffs.…”

Section: Colonial Economic Policies and Changing Household Labour Rel...mentioning

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“…１５ Many sugar and coffee plantations employed not only indigenous men, but also their wives and children. A sample of 400 plantation worker households around 1940 shows that on average, 70% of their wives also worked independently from their husbands for wages in all kinds of manual agricultural labour, contributing an average of almost 30% of the household income (Van Nederveen Meerkerk & Boter, 2015). Thus, although the advantages of the role of women as a stable factor within the household had been stressed since the introduction of the Ethical Policy, the contributions of married women were still dearly needed, in the context of the low living standards of the majority of the population.…”

Section: Sociopolitical Entanglements: Women's and Children's Labour ...mentioning

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2017

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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In this article I investigate changing household labour relations and women’s work in the Dutch empire. I question how colonial connections affected the division of work between men, women, and children, not only in the colony ‐ the Dutch East Indies (i.c. Java), but also in the metropolis ‐ the Netherlands. Entanglements can be found in the influences of colonial economic policies on both colony and metropolis, as well as in the more indirect effects of colonial exploitation and taxation, and, finally in the sphere of sociopolitics and ideologies. I will analyse the entanglements between the Netherlands and Java in these domains, comparing similarities and differences, but also paying attention to the connections and transfers between both parts of the Dutch empire. Although some of the conditions and developments were highly specific to the Dutch empire, I aim to show that the method of comparing and establishing direct and indirect connections between different parts of an empire can lead to new insights that can also be applied to other parts of the world and different time periods.

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Meerkerk¹

2017

Tijdschrift Voor Genderstudies

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The Meaning of Name a Place in Perspective Java Migrant Custom in Lampung, Indonesia

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Sudjarwo²,

Maydiantoro³

2022

Wseas Transactions on Environment and Development

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Every place on earth has a name. The origin of place names generally has different backgrounds, stories, and histories. Generally, it depends on who gave the name of the place. There is a meaning and purpose behind the naming. This study aims to determine the socio-cultural ecological life of the community in an area and analyze the meaning contained in the socio-cultural context. This qualitative research is sourced from 26 informants. In addition to interviews, this research relies on observation and documentation studies to obtain a comprehensive toponym. This research was conducted at Gedong Tataan. Gedong Tataan is an area where is located that shows the history of transmigration in Lampung during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that the naming of Gedong Tataan by the Javanese is influenced by the physical aspects of the area based on the socio-cultural aspect of Java. This study concludes that all areas inhabited by Javanese transmigrants in Lampung have a toponym according to the origin of the population from Java, including the use of the Javanese language for daily communication. This behavior belongs to the realm of cultural preservation and it still thrives in migration and transmigration areas.

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Contrasting Consumption: Household Income and Living Standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870–1940

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The Meaning of Name a Place in Perspective Java Migrant Custom in Lampung, Indonesia

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