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Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor /
"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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Making of modern freedom.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 350 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058506282X 9780585062822 0804765332 9780804765336 |