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Unfree Labor
Author | : Peter KOLCHIN |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674039711 |
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Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery.
Freedom s Frontier
Author | : Stacey L. Smith |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781469607696 |
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Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's Frontier, Stacey L. Smith examines the battle over slavery as it unfolded on the multiracial Pacific Coast. Despite its antislavery constitution, California was home to a dizzying array of bound and semibound labor systems: African American slavery, American Indian indenture, Latino and Chinese contract labor, and a brutal sex traffic in bound Indian and Chinese women. Using untapped legislative and court records, Smith reconstructs the lives of California's unfree workers and documents the political and legal struggles over their destiny as the nation moved through the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Smith reveals that the state's anti-Chinese movement, forged in its struggle over unfree labor, reached eastward to transform federal Reconstruction policy and national race relations for decades to come. Throughout, she illuminates the startling ways in which the contest over slavery's fate included a western struggle that encompassed diverse labor systems and workers not easily classified as free or slave, black or white.
Slavery s Metropolis
Author | : Rashauna Johnson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107133716 |
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A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.
The Poverty of Slavery
Author | : Robert E. Wright |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-02-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783319489681 |
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This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates how slaveholders burden communities and governments with the task of maintaining the system while preventing productive individuals from participating in the economy. Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer apologize for opposing the dubious benefits of unfree labor. Wright provides a valuable resource for exposing the hidden price tag of slaving to help them pitch antislavery policies as matters of both human rights and economic well-being.
Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour
Author | : Dr Tom Brass,Tom Brass |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317827368 |
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Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is greater than supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.
Free and Unfree Labour
Author | : Tom Brass,Marcel van der Linden |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105022203579 |
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The text comprises 24 essays which examine various forms of unfree labour and its absence or presence in various parts of the world.
Foundations of Modern Slavery
Author | : Caf Dowlah |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781000407396 |
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This is an academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through the ages for capital accumulation and industrialization, and colonial and post-colonial economic transformation. The study explores all major episodes of slaveries beginning from the ancient civilizations to the end of Transatlantic Slave Trade in the eighteenth century; the worlds of serfdoms in the context of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia; the worlds of feudalisms in the context of Latin America, Japan, China, and India; the worlds of indentured servitudes in the context of the Europeans, the Indians, and the Chinese; the worlds of guestworkers in the contexts of the United States and Western Europe; the worlds of migrant labor programs in the context of the Gulf States; and the contemporary world of neoslavery focusing on human trafficking in both developing and developed countries, and forced labor in global value chains. The book is designed not only for students and academia in labor economics, labor history, and global socio-economic and political transformations, but also for the intelligent and inquiring policy makers, reformers, and general readers across the disciplinary pursuits of Economics, Political Science, History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Law.