TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanziani, Alessandro
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt9qcm9z
ID  - OAPEN ID: 650056
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 873805533
KW  - History
KW  - global labor history
KW  - indentured servitude
KW  - slavery
KW  - abolition
KW  - workers' rights
KW  - Eurasia
KW  - Peasant
KW  - Russia
KW  - Serfdom
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b0b91385-8a70-4cf8-b88c-7510a1d9e9ce/650056.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30040
PB  - Berghahn Books
PY  - 2014-01-01
SN  - 9781785336607
TI  - Bondage : Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
ER  - 
