| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; 11 |
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Studies in global social history ; 11.
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| Contents |
Introduction labour, coercion, and economic growth in Eurasia, seventeenth-early twentieth centuries The duty to work a comparison of the common law and civil law systems from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries Dutch imperial anxieties about free labour, penal sanctions and the right to strike Children and forced labour in the Indian ocean world, circa 1750-1900 Factors that shaped the organization of labor and the labor market in Tokugawa Japan Kyoto and central Japan Contractual relations, tariffs and customs in the Lyon silk industry in the nineteenth century The circulation of commercial manpower in an Indian worldwide trading network in the early twentieth century Constrained labour in early-modern rural east-central and eastern Europe regional variation and its causes Rights and bondage in Russian Serfdom Acting as master and bondservant considerations on status, identities and the nature of "bond-servitude" in late Ming China Public works and the question of unfree labour / Alessandro Stanziani -- / Simon Deakin -- / Ube Bosma -- / Gwyn Campbell -- / Mary Louise Nagata -- / Pierre Vernus -- / Claude Markovits -- / Markus Cerman -- / Alessandro Stanziani -- / Claude Chevaleyre -- / Chitra Joshi |
| Summary |
This book shows that in Asia and Europe, 17th- early 20th century, the history of "free" labour is linked to that of coerced labour. Circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, and long-term growth contributed to increase coercion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Eurasia -- History
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Forced labor -- Eurasia -- History
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Labor -- Eurasia -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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Economic development.
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Forced labor.
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Labor.
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Eurasia.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stanziani, Alessandro
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| LC no. |
2012028033 |
| ISBN |
9789004236455 |
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9004236457 |
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9789004236455 |
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1283638150 |
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9781283638159 |
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