Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N306.3609/2
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English
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vi, 350 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman -- 1. Slavery and Freedom in the Early Modern World / David Eltis -- 2. Free Labor vs. Slave Labor: The British and Caribbean Cases / Seymour Drescher -- 3. After Serfdom: Russian Emancipation in Comparative Perspective / Peter Kolchin -- 4. From Autonomy to Abunda...
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
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California
Date Published
1999.
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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 ch...
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Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
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The making of modern freedom.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.
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N306.3609/2
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74VvEQlvA3qO
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0804735212 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804735216 (cloth : alk. paper)
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306.3609
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991011748289702626
