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Author Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Title Through the prism of slavery : labor, capital, and world economy / Dale W. Tomich
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages)
Series World social change
World social change
Contents World market and American slavery: problems of historical method -- World of capital, worlds of labor: reworking class in global perspective -- The "second slavery": bonded labor and the transformation of the nineteenth century world economy -- World slavery and Caribbean capitalism: the Cuban sugar industry, 1760-1868 -- Spaces of slavery: times of freedom: rethinking Caribbean history in world perspective -- Small islands & huge comparisons: Caribbean plantations, historical unevenness, & capitalist modernity -- White days, black days: the working day and the crisis of slavery in the French Caribbean -- Une petite guine: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1870 -- Contested terrains: houses, provision grounds, and the reconstitution of labor in post-emancipation Martinique
Summary "Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy [Dale Tomich] reinterprets the development of the world economy through a 'prism of slavery'. Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Slave labor -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century
Sugarcane industry -- Caribbean Area -- History
Slave labor -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Slave labor
Slavery
Sugarcane industry
Arbeit
Sklave
Sklaverei
Zuckerrohranbau
Caribbean Area
Karibik
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1417503572
9781417503575