Alessandro Stanziani ( Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Empires of Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781009608572
• ISBN-10: 1009608576
• Artikelnr.: 75012661

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and Senior Researcher at the CNRS. He is the author of Earth Capital: The Long History of Capitalism and Its Aftermath.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Labor Rules and Colonization: 1. The Russian way: peasants, landowners and the empire
2. The British empire: coercion in the name of freedom
3. The French touch: protecting men in urban industry, excluding rural people, women and colonies
Part II. The Economics of Bondage: 4. The Russian empire and the economic dynamics of serfdom
5. Labor and the British Industrial Revolution
6. International trade, slavery and the industrial revolution
7. With or without you. France and the empire of sugar
Part III. Labor Empires Under Attack. From Abolition to the Great Transformation, 1840-1918: 8. Who is the true slave?
9. The aristocratic abolition of serfdom in Russia
10. Abolition in the United States and the great transformation
11 Neo-colonialism in the age of the welfare state
General conclusion and extrapolations.