Slaves Serfs Wage Slavery
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Terms Of Labor
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Author : Stanley L. Engerman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Terms Of Labor written by Stanley L. Engerman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor—the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others—are of great significance for understanding the past and the emergence of the modern world. For long periods, much of the world’s labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only the terms of labor, but also the more general issues of political freedom. The nine chapters in this volume deal with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and point to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change. The topics covered are European beliefs that rejected the enslavement of other Europeans but permitted the slavery of Africans (David Eltis), British abolitionism and the impact of emancipation in the British West Indies (Seymour Drescher), the consequences of the end of Russian serfdom (Peter Kolchin), the definition and nature of free labor as seen by nineteenth-century American workers (Leon Fink), the effects of changing legal and economic concepts of free labor (Robert J. Steinfeld), the antebellum American use of the metaphor of slavery (David Roediger), female dependent labor in the aftermath of American emancipation (Amy Dru Stanley), the contrast between individual and group actions in attempting to benefit individual laborers (David Brody), and the link between arguments concerning free labor and the actual outcomes for laborers in nineteenth-century America (Clayne Pope).
From Chattel Slaves To Wage Slaves
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Author : Mary Turner
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995
From Chattel Slaves To Wage Slaves written by Mary Turner and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Slaves Serfs Wage Slavery
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Author : Henry T. Bradfor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Slaves Serfs Wage Slavery written by Henry T. Bradfor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Political Science categories.
The tidal river Thames is the gateway to London. Before the advent of containerisation it was the greatest and busiest port in the world. In the Port of London men of all skills and abilities worked side by side, though not necessarily in close harmony. This tale, set soon after the Second World War, concerns ex-servicemen who had returned home to share in the 'rebuilding of their homeland' after the devastation caused by bombing, to be faced with the economic repression of wages and incomes justified by war debts owed to America and Canada. Work in the docks was hard and dangerous, and demanded long hours over a seven-day week. It was in such an environment that Henry T. Bradford spent thirty-two years of his working life, first as a 'Grade A' docker and later, after suffering severe injuries in dock accidents, as a ship's clerk.
Chattel Slavery And Wage Slavery
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Author : Marcus Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Chattel Slavery And Wage Slavery written by Marcus Cunliffe and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with History categories.
This book begins with a provocative paradox: George Fitzhugh of Virginia, one of the most eloquent defenders of Southern chattel slavery, appealed to a New York abolitionist for support. How can this be? The abolitionist in question, Charles Edwards Lester, had confessed that "he would sooner subject his child to Southern slavery, than have him to be a free laborer of England." Lester was in fact referring to the "white" or "wage" slavery of the mother country. In a three part study, Cunliffe explores the context of chattel and wage slavery in Britain and the United States. He first outlines the evolution of the concept of wage slavery in Europe and the United States, demonstrating how this concept bore upon opinions about chattel slavery in America. In his second section, Cunliffe discusses the precariousness of Anglo-American relationships during the period of 1830 to 1860. In their resentment of British rebukes aimed at the persistence of slavery in a democracy, Americans retaliated by claiming that British wage slavery was worse than American plantation slavery. Cunliffe concludes by charting the career of Lester, the seemingly atypical New York abolitionist. Lester displayed a conviction that Britain was a corrupt and brutal society, most of whose leading citizens detested America. Cunliffe maintains that Lester's opinions were shared by many of his countrymen during the antebellum decades; in this sense he may have been more truly representative of American attitudes than either Southerners like Fitzhugh or Northerner abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison.
From Bondage To Contract
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Author : Amy Dru Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-11-13
From Bondage To Contract written by Amy Dru Stanley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-13 with History categories.
In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.
Serfdom And Slavery
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Author : M. L. Bush
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-01-09
Serfdom And Slavery written by M. L. Bush and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-09 with History categories.
Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays that illuminate the nature, development, impact and termination of serfdom and slavery in European society. While the case studies range form classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia, the volume as a whole is closely integrated. It makes an important contribution to a topic of increasing international interest.
The Wages Of Slavery
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Author : Michael Twaddle
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Wages Of Slavery written by Michael Twaddle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Slave labor categories.
The Slavery Of Our Times
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Author : Leo Tolstoy
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-03-09
The Slavery Of Our Times written by Leo Tolstoy and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with Political Science categories.
This vintage book contains a fascinating and insightful analysis of socio-economic conditions written more than a hundred years ago. In it, Tolstoy explores the flaws of the division of labour, progress, greed, economic theories, wage slavery, and more in astonishing detail. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in socialism, capitalism, and economic history. Contents include: “Goods-Porters who Work Thirty-Seven Hours”, “Society's Indifference While Men Perish”, “Justification of the Existing Position by Science”, “The Assertion that Rural Labourers Must Enter the Factory System”, “Why Learned Economists Assert What Is False”, “Bankruptcy of the Socialist Ideal”, “Culture or Freedom”, “Slavery Exists Among Us”, “What Is Slavery?”, et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. This book was first published in 1900.
The Abolition Of Slavery In Brazil
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Author : David Baronov
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-06-30
The Abolition Of Slavery In Brazil written by David Baronov and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-30 with History categories.
The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can trace this to nineteenth-century abolition movements across the Americas which did not lead to (and were not intended to result in) a transition from race-based slave labor to race-neutral wage labor for former slaves. Rather, the abolition of slavery led to the emergence of multi-racial societies wherein capital/labor relations were characterized by new forms of extra-market coercion that were explicitly linked to racial categories. Post-slavery Brazilian society is a classic example of this pattern. Working within the context of the origin of the wage labor category in classical political economy, Baronov begins by questioning the central role of wage-labor within capitalist production through an examination of key works by Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, as well as the historical conditions informing their analyses. The study then turns to the specific case of Brazil between 1850-1888, comparing the abolition of slavery in three Brazilian regions: the northeast sugar region, the Paraiba Valley, and Western Sao Paulo. Through this analysis, Baronov provides a critique of the dominant interpretation of abolition (as a transition from slave labor to wage labor) and suggests an alternative interpretation that places a greater emphasis on the role of non-wage labor forms and extra-market factors in the shaping of the post-slavery social order.
Cannibals All Or Slaves Without Masters
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Author : George Fitzhugh
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1966-05-01
Cannibals All Or Slaves Without Masters written by George Fitzhugh and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-05-01 with History categories.
Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only “the new fashionable name for slavery,” though slavery was far more humane and responsible, “the best and most common form of socialism.” His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. “Why all this,” he asked, “except that free society is a failure?” The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, “a presumptuous charlatan,” and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity—even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity—could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker.