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This volume deals with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor from slavery and serfdom in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and points to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change.

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Introduction Stanley L. Engerman 1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world David Eltis 2. Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases Seymour Drescher 3. After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective Peter Kolchin 4. From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labour system in nineteenth-century America Leon Fink 5. Changing legal conceptions of free labor Robert J. Steinfeld 6. Race, labor and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest David Roediger 7. 'We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work': freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley 8. Free labor, law and American trade unionism David Brody 9. Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream Clayne Pope Notes Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1999
      ISBN13: 9780804735216, 978-0804735216
      ISBN10: 0804735212
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume deals with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor from slavery and serfdom in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and points to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Stanley L. Engerman 1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world David Eltis 2. Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases Seymour Drescher 3. After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective Peter Kolchin 4. From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labour system in nineteenth-century America Leon Fink 5. Changing legal conceptions of free labor Robert J. Steinfeld 6. Race, labor and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest David Roediger 7. 'We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work': freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley 8. Free labor, law and American trade unionism David Brody 9. Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream Clayne Pope Notes Index.

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