Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
1999
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Title
Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
ISBN
0804735212 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804735216 (cloth ; alk. paper)
058506282X
9780585062822
9780804735216 (cloth ; alk. paper)
058506282X
9780585062822
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
vi, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
HD4861 .T47 1999
Summary
"For long periods, much of the world's labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only the terms of labor, but also the more general issues of political freedom. The nine chapters in this volume deal with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and point to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index.
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Engerman, Stanley L.
Series
Making of modern freedom.
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman.
Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis.
Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher.
After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin.
From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink.
Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld.
Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger.
"We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.
Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody.
Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope.
Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis.
Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher.
After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin.
From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink.
Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld.
Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger.
"We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.
Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody.
Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope.