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Terms of Labor - Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Hardcover)
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Terms of Labor - Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor (Hardcover)
Series: The Making of Modern Freedom
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Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services
has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding
the terms of labor--the arrangements under which labor is made to
produce and to divide its product with others--are of great
significance for understanding the past and the emergence of the
modern world.
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.
The topics covered are European beliefs that rejected the
enslavement of other Europeans but permitted the slavery of
Africans (David Eltis), British abolitionism and the impact of
emancipation in the British West Indies (Seymour Drescher), the
consequences of the end of Russian serfdom (Peter Kolchin), the
definition and nature of free labor as seen by nineteenth-century
American workers (Leon Fink), the effects of changing legal and
economic concepts of free labor (Robert J. Steinfeld), the
antebellum American use of the metaphor of slavery (David
Roediger), female dependent labor in the aftermath of American
emancipation (Amy Dru Stanley), the contrast between individual and
group actions in attempting to benefit individual laborers (David
Brody), and the link between arguments concerning free labor and
the actual outcomes for laborers in nineteenth-century America
(Clayne Pope).
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