Provides the first global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe and the Indian Ocean between the 17th and the 20th century. Provides a new iconoclastic view of Russian serfdom and European labor during the industrial revolution. Provides a new link between the evolution of coerced labour (slavery, serfdom and Indentured labour) in Eurasia and the Indian Ocean and the dynamics of free labour in the West. It overcomes the distinction between colonial studies and european history. Advances a new chronology of modernization.
Provides the first global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe and the Indian Ocean between the 17th and the 20th century. Provides a new iconoclastic view of Russian serfdom and European labor during the industrial revolution. Provides a new link between the evolution of coerced labour (slavery, serfdom and Indentured labour) in Eurasia and the Indian Ocean and the dynamics of free labour in the West. It overcomes the distinction between colonial studies and european history. Advances a new chronology of modernization.
Alessandro Stanziani is Professor at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Centre National des recherches Scientifiques), Paris. He is the author of four monographs, ten edited volumes, and more than one hundred articles. His books include Rules of exchange: French capitalism in Comparative Perspective, 18th-20th Centuries( Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Bâtisseurs d'Empires. Russie, Chine et Inde à la conquête du monde(Liber-Seuil, 2012).
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Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BONDAGE IMAGINED Chapter 1. Second Serfdom and Wage-Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia PART II: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONDAGE. SLAVES AND SERFS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND RUSSIA Chapter 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 4. The Institutions of Serfdom Chapter 5. Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates PART III: OLD BONDAGE, NEW PRACTICES. A COMPARATIVE VIEW. RUSSIA, EUROPE, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLDS Chapter 6. The Persistent Servant: Labor, Rules, and Social Hierarchies in France and Britain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 7. Bondage across the Ocean. Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean General Conclusion: The Collapse and Resurgence of Bondage Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BONDAGE IMAGINED Chapter 1. Second Serfdom and Wage-Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia PART II: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONDAGE. SLAVES AND SERFS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND RUSSIA Chapter 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 4. The Institutions of Serfdom Chapter 5. Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates PART III: OLD BONDAGE, NEW PRACTICES. A COMPARATIVE VIEW. RUSSIA, EUROPE, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLDS Chapter 6. The Persistent Servant: Labor, Rules, and Social Hierarchies in France and Britain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 7. Bondage across the Ocean. Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean General Conclusion: The Collapse and Resurgence of Bondage Bibliography Index
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