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Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850) (Paperback)
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Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850) (Paperback)
Series: International Review of Social History Supplements
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Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian
Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many
different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free
wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured
servants, convicts, and slaves. From the seventeenth to the
nineteenth century the labor of these 'motley crews' made port
cities crucial hubs of the emerging capitalist world market and
centers of imperial infrastructure. The nine chapters in this
volume investigate the interaction between different groups of
laborers around the docks and the neighborhoods that stretched
behind them. How did the mixture of many different groups of
laborers shape patterns of work and life, authority and control,
exclusion and inclusion, group-competition and joint resistance?
What roles did gender, race and status play in maintaining
divisions or enabling solidarities? Together, the nine case studies
present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class
cultures in port cities.
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