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oapen-20.500.12657-300402024-03-25T09:51:42Z Bondage Stanziani, Alessandro History global labor history indentured servitude slavery abolition workers' rights Eurasia Peasant Russia Serfdom thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards via indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the 17th and the 19th centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:43:19Z 2020-04-01T12:43:19Z 2014-01-01 book 650056 OCN: 873805533 9781785336607 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30040 eng International Studies in Social History application/pdf n/a 650056.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctt9qcm9z 101588 10.2307/j.ctt9qcm9z 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336607 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101588 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards via indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the 17th and the 19th centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less.
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