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

• TeilnehmendeR: Stanziani, Alessandro.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Social History 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction: Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, Seventeenth–Early Twentieth Centuries /; The Duty to Work: A Comparison of the Common Law and Civil Law Systems from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries /; Dutch Imperial Anxieties about Free Labour, Penal Sanctions and the Right to Strike /; Children and Forced Labour in the Indian Ocean World, circa 1750–1900 /; Factors that Shaped the Organization of Labor and the Labor Market in Tokugawa Japan: Kyoto and Central Japan /; Contractual Relations, Tariffs and Customs in the Lyon Silk Industry in the Nineteenth Century /; The Circulation of Commercial Manpower in an Indian Worldwide Trading Network in the Early Twentieth Century /; Constrained Labour in Early-Modern Rural East-Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Variation and Its Causes /; Rights and Bondage in Russian Serfdom /; Acting As Master and Bondservant: Considerations on Status, Identities and the Nature of “Bond-Servitude” in Late Ming China /; Public Works and the Question of Unfree Labour /; References --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1283638150; 9004236457
• ISSN: 1874-6705
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alessandro Stanziani.

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.