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.

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.

Table of 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.