Labour, coercion, and economic growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th centuries [electronic resource] / edited by Alessandro Stanziani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanziani, Alessandro.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History 11.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Eurasia--History.

Economic development.

Forced labor--Eurasia--History.

Forced labor.

Labor--Eurasia--History.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of the forms of “free” labour is intimately linked to that of coerced labour. In this book, worldwide acknowledged specialists of Russia, China, Russia, Japan, India, the Indian Ocean, France and Britain show that between the seventeenth and the twentieth century, forms of labour and bondage were defined and practised in reference to each other. Labour relationships found their sources not only in the global circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, but also in market dynamics. Proto-industry, agriculture, trade and manufacturing experienced unprecedented growth throughout Eurasia. Mostly labour-intensive, this long-term growth put considerable pressure on labour resources and contributed to increased coercion and legal constraints on labour mobility in both Asia and Europe.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

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 / Ulbe 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

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-63815-0

90-04-23645-7

OCLC:

813285848

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004236455 DOI