Colonial law distinguished European beggars from tolerated Chinese and Javanese vendors.

Evidence

Those counted were people employed in nearly every low-end job and just about every middling occupation for Europeans in the Indies: former soldiers; railway and tramworkers, clerks in commercial offices and legal bureaus; supervisors and scribes on the agricultural estates; craftsmen; innkeepers; blacksmiths; waiters; watchmakers; photographers; barbers; tailors; bookbinders; storefront lawyers; shoemakers; coolie recruiters; roadside shopkeepers; and shop attendants—all jobs that were increasingly being filled by Javanese and Chinese women and men and that just twenty years later would be largely taken over by them. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authorities normalized European beggars and vagrants as expected phenomena; Colonial officials proposed legal recognition of European status based on visible racial traits; Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955 (+2 more)

Related

• Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial authorities normalized European beggars and vagrants as expected phenomena (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authorities normalized European beggars and vagrants as expected phenomena #expands (0.75)
• Colonial officials proposed legal recognition of European status based on visible racial traits #expands (0.60)
• Indo Europeans occupied low-end jobs later filled by Javanese and Chinese workers #corroborates (0.55) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 955
• The pauperism commission never acknowledged that most land-poor Javanese lived in the same destitution #corroborates (0.50)
• Dutch officials blamed Javanese wet-nursing for corrupting European children raised in the Indies #corroborates (0.45) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 571