Labor on the Fringes of Empire Voice, Exit and the Law /

• Main Author: Stanziani, Alessandro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Subjects: History, Modern.; World history.; Labor-History.; Imperialism.; Europe-History.; Social history.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Labor History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; European History.; Social History.

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, p...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Progress and (un)freedom
• 2. Coercion, Resistance and Voice
• 3. Utilitarianism and the Abolition of Slavery in India
• 4. Slavery, Abolition and the Contractarian Approach to the Indian Ocean. The Case of Mauritius
• 5. How do you say "free" in French?
• 6. The Welfare State and the Colonial World, 1880-1914. The Case of French Equatorial Africa
• 7. Conclusion. Voice, Exit and the Law in Historical Perspective.