Bondage labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions re...

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Main Author: Stanziani, Alessandro (-)
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched funder (funder)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books 2014
2014.
Series:International studies in social history ; v. 24.
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Summary:For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perf
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785336607
9781782382515
Access:Open access