Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
Uniform Title: | Making of modern freedom.
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Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1999.
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Series: | Making of modern freedom.
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Physical Description: | vi, 350 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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.