De millioenen uit Deli
- Approximate level
- C1
- Length
- 19,422 words
- Reading time
- 1 h 37 min
- Chapters
- 20
- Language
- Dutch
- On Project Gutenberg since
- 2021
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This historical document outlines the legal regulations for contract labor on plantations in Sumatra during the colonial era. The text is written in formal, administrative Dutch from the early twentieth century. You will encounter specialized legal vocabulary and long, complex sentences that detail the rights and obligations of both employers and workers. It is a demanding read for language learners, as it relies on precise, technical phrasing and archaic sentence structures to define the conditions of labor in the Dutch East Indies.
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Subjects
- Labor laws and legislation -- Indonesia
- Contract labor -- Indonesia -- Sumatra
- Agricultural laborers -- Indonesia -- Sumatra
- Plantations -- Indonesia -- Sumatra
- Dutch -- Indonesia -- Sumatra
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