Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor /

Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Engerman, Stanley L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Slavery > History > Congresses.
Labor > History > Congresses.
Contract labor > History > Congresses.
Labor movement > History > Congresses.
Civil rights > History > Congresses.
Liberty > History > Congresses.
Labor > History.
Slavery > History.
Serfdom > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman.
  • Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis.
  • Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher.
  • After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin.
  • From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink.
  • Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld.
  • Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger.
  • "We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley.
  • Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody.
  • Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope.