Terms of labor: slavery, serfdom, and free labor 9780804765336, 0804735212, 1967192200, 1979195218, 0804765332, 9780585062822, 058506282X

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

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