Bondage : labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries / / Alessandro Stanziani
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| Autore: |
Stanziani Alessandro
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| Titolo: |
Bondage : labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries / / Alessandro Stanziani
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.095 |
| 331.0950903 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Forced labor - Eurasia - History |
| Slave labor - Eurasia - History | |
| Labor - Eurasia - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Bondage Imagined; 1. Second Serfdom and Wage Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-nineteenth Century; 2. Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia; Part II. The Architecture of Bondage; 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century; 4. The Institutions of Serfdom; 5. Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates; Part III. Old Bondage, New Practices; 6. The Persistent Servant |
| 7. Bondage across the OceanConclusion; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bondage |
| ISBN: | 1-78533-660-6 |
| 1-78238-251-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910268954903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International studies in social history ; ; v. 24.