From Chattel Slaves To Wage Slaves

Author : Mary Turner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0253210011

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From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves by Mary Turner Pdf

"... a very welcome addition to the literature on labour history." --Labour History Review "This is a valuable collection of essays which gives fresh perspectives and interesting empirical data on the modes of labor bargaining by New World slaves and on the transition from 'chattel' to 'wage' slavery." --New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids "Of uniformly high quality, these essays underline the fluidity and dynamic of bargaining processes, the diversity of political and economic contexts, and the importance of external factors.... will provoke discussion on parallels between capitalist agriculture and capitalist industrial organization, and will fuel debates on slave as proletarian, and on the notions of 'peasant breach' and the two economies." --Choice "[These essays] provide important answers to questions relating to levels of slave subsistence, the material conditions of the enslaved, the control mechanisms of owners, the contexts which generated labor bargaining on the part of the enslaved and the reasons owners/employers acquiesced to laborers' demands rather than rely on the coercive power of the whip." --Labor History "[The] contributors deserve commendation for making salutary advances towards developing an integrated analysis of the history of labouring people in slavery and freedom that transcends the particularities of their legal status." --Slavery & Abolition "... this collection addresses an important topic and will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of comparative slavery in the Americas." --Judy Bieber, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque The status of labor during slavery and post-emancipation in the Caribbean and the Americas. Contributors investigate the terms under which slaves in the Caribbean, the Southern States, and Latin America worked and how they struggled to establish informal contract terms.

Author : Michael Twaddle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135235628

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The Wages of Slavery by Michael Twaddle Pdf

The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years. The Wages of Slavery tackles this subject from a protoproletarian perspective, studies new labour regimes in Africa and the Caribbean, and discusses work practices before and after emancipation the nature of the working week, subsistence and surplus for slaves and free person, and labour negotiations and confrontations.

Author : Marcus Cunliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Slave labor
ISBN : OCLC:1029288576

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Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery by Marcus Cunliffe Pdf

Author : James Bronterre O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : WISC:89096957501

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The Rise, Progress, and Phases of Human Slavery by James Bronterre O'Brien Pdf

Author : W. M. Tsotsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Black people
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081384674

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From Chattel to Wage Slavery by W. M. Tsotsi Pdf

Author : Michael Twaddle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1137340043

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The Wages of Slavery by Michael Twaddle Pdf

The transition from chattel slavery to forced labour in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has commanded increasing attention from scholars in recent years. The Wages of Slavery tackles this subject from a protoproletarian perspective, studies new labour regimes in Africa and the Caribbean, and discusses work practices before and after emancipation the nature of the working week, subsistence and surplus for slaves and free person, and labour negotiations and confrontations.

Author : Amy Dru Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521635268

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From Bondage to Contract by Amy Dru Stanley Pdf

This 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. From Bondage to Contract reveals how the problem of distinguishing between what was saleable and what was not reflected the ideological and social changes wrought by the concurrence of abolition in the South and burgeoning industrial capitalism in the North.

Author : Roy Larcom McCardell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Silk industry
ISBN : OCLC:948534619

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"The Wage Slaves of New York" .. by Roy Larcom McCardell Pdf

Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804765336

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Terms of Labor by Stanley L. Engerman Pdf

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).

Author : James Shelden Ingalls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Trusts, Industrial
ISBN : MINN:31951P01168446K

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Slaves to the Trust by James Shelden Ingalls Pdf

Author : Kevin Bales
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520951389

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Disposable People by Kevin Bales Pdf

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. All of the author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects around the world.

Author : Lawrence B. Glickman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501702211

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A Living Wage by Lawrence B. Glickman Pdf

The fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by Lawrence B. Glickman. The labor movement's response to wages shows how American workers negotiated the transition from artisan to consumer, opening up new political possibilities for organized workers and creating contradictions that continue to haunt the labor movement today.Nineteenth-century workers hoped to become self-employed artisans, rather than permanent "wage slaves." After the Civil War, however, unions redefined working-class identity in consumerist terms, and demanded a wage that would reward workers commensurate with their needs as consumers. This consumerist turn in labor ideology also led workers to struggle for shorter hours and union labels.First articulated in the 1870s, the demand for a living wage was voiced increasingly by labor leaders and reformers at the turn of the century. Glickman explores the racial, ethnic, and gender implications, as white male workers defined themselves in contrast to African Americans, women, Asians, and recent European immigrants. He shows how a historical perspective on the concept of a living wage can inform our understanding of current controversies.

Author : Robin Kelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439105047

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Race Rebels by Robin Kelley Pdf

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured--until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

Author : George Fitzhugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Labor
ISBN : MINN:31951001538426E

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Cannibals All! by George Fitzhugh Pdf

Southern intellectual George Fitzhugh provides a passionate defense of slavery in this nearly 400-page volume published in 1857. Further developing ideas in his previous work Sociology for the South, Fitzhugh not only defends slavery but attacks the entire liberal tradition. Attacking Adam Smith, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and others, Fitzhugh argues that free markets are harmful to society by forcing the lower classes into crushing labor and poverty. The answer, Fitzhugh argues, is slavery--not only for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," he writes, "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."

Author : David R. Roediger
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Discrimination in employment
ISBN : 1859842402

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The Wages of Whiteness by David R. Roediger Pdf

THE WAGES OF WHITENESS provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. In an Afterword to this second edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself--then surveys criticism of his work. He accepts the views of some critics but challenges others.