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Author Stanziani, Alessandro, author.

Title Bondage : labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries / Alessandro Stanziani
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 258 pages)
Series International studies in social history ; volume 24
International studies in social history ; v. 24.
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 Ocean
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 perfec
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Forced labor -- Eurasia -- History
Slave labor -- Eurasia -- History
Labor -- Eurasia -- History
General and world history.
General & world history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- Modern -- General.
Forced labor
Labor
Slave labor
Eurasia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782382515
1782382518
1306405998
9781306405997
9781785336607
1785336606