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Labour, coercion, and economic growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th centuries / edited by Alessandro Stanziani.
Lippincott Library HD4875.E83 L33 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in global social history ; 11.
- Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forced labor--Eurasia--History.
- Forced labor.
- Labor--Eurasia--History.
- Labor.
- Economic development--Eurasia--History.
- Economic development.
- History.
- Eurasia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction : labour, coercion, and economic growth in Eurasia, seventeenth-early twentieth centuries / Alessandro Stanziani
- The duty to work : a comparison of the common law and civil law systems from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries / Simon Deakin
- Dutch imperial anxieties about free labour, penal sanctions and the right to strike / Ube Bosma
- Children and forced labour in the Indian ocean world, circa 1750-1900 / Gwyn Campbell
- Factors that shaped the organization of labor and the labor market in Tokugawa Japan : Kyoto and central Japan / Mary Louise Nagata
- Contractual relations, tariffs and customs in the Lyon silk industry in the nineteenth century / Pierre Vernus
- The circulation of commercial manpower in an Indian worldwide trading network in the early twentieth century / Claude Markovits
- Constrained labour in early-modern rural east-central and eastern Europe : regional variation and its causes / Markus Cerman
- Rights and bondage in Russian Serfdom / Alessandro Stanziani
- Acting as master and bondservant : considerations on status, identities and the nature of "bond-servitude" in late Ming China / Claude Chevaleyre
- Public works and the question of unfree labour / Chitra Joshi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004231122
- 9004231129
- 9789004236455
- 9004236457
- OCLC:
- 821651561
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