Statuts Personnels Et Main-d'œuvre En Méditerranée Hellénistique / Stéphanie Maillot, Julien Zurbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maillot, Stéphanie, author.

Zurbach, Julien, author.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Work--Social aspects.

Work.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Clermont-Ferrand, France : Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021.

Summary:

Traditional reconstructions of the middle and late Roman Republic suggest that the Roman elite monopolized the land and used it to establish slave-staffed estates. They used these to supply the growing market in Rome and overseas. Recent work has significantly altered this view: large estates were established mostly in central Italy, while in most areas larger, medium, and small farms coexisted. It is also clear that great variety existed in the labour organisation on large estates: landowners, slaves, permanent and seasonal free wage labourers, and tenants worked together in different configurations, depending on the size of the estate and its connections to the market. This paper investigates the legal status of labour forces in Italy, both in Roman territory and in Latin and allied regions. Although most areas of Italy did not enjoy Roman citizenship, Latin and Italian allies still profited in many ways from the expansion of the Roman state and the new markets that were opened up by the conquest of the Mediterranean. They, like Roman landowners, used labourers of varying legal status to work their estates - whether large or small.

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ISBN:

9782383773269