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1 online resource (vi, 350 pages) |
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Making of modern freedom |
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Making of modern freedom.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman. -- Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis. -- Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher. -- After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin. -- From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink. -- Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld. -- Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger. -- "We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley. -- Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody. -- Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope |
| 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 chapters in this volume deal with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and point to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Slavery -- History -- Congresses
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Labor -- History -- Congresses
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Contract labor -- History -- Congresses
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Labor movement -- History -- Congresses
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Civil rights -- History -- Congresses
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Liberty -- History -- Congresses
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Labor -- History
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Slavery -- History
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Serfdom -- History
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Slavery -- History -- Congresses
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Contract labor -- History -- Congresses
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Labor movement -- History -- Congresses
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Civil rights -- History -- Congresses
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Liberty -- History -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civil rights
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Contract labor
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Labor
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Labor movement
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Liberty
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Serfdom
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Slavery
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Slavernij.
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Horigheid.
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Arbeidsverhoudingen.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Engerman, Stanley L.
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| LC no. |
98041714 |
| ISBN |
058506282X |
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9780585062822 |
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0804765332 |
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9780804765336 |
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