1.
Ricciardi, Ferrucio
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940) Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
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2.
Marcelline, Sanayi
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
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3.
Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
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4.
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
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A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
5.
Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
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6.
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
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Heute ist das, was wir unter Arbeit verstehen, in Bewegung geraten. Die Lohnarbeit, die sich mit der Industrialisierung durchgesetzt hat, wird durch neue Formen des Arbeitens verdrängt. Zunehmend lösen sich die vertraglich abgesicherte "Normalarbeit" und deren betriebszentrierte Organisation auf. Eingespielte Definitionen von Arbeit werden porös - auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Fünf Fallstudien und drei methodisch-konzeptionelle Reflexionen lenken in diesem Heft den Blick auf die vielfältigen Formen und Deutungen von Arbeit jenseits des westlichen Industriebetriebs: "vormoderne" Organisationsformen, transnationale Verflechtungen, globale Produktionsregimes und koloniale Imaginarien.
2023
Ricciardi, Ferrucio
Freedom of movement versus freedom of work? Coping with the mobility of indigenous workers in a palm oil concession in French Congo (1910-1940) Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, africa, colonialism, congo, migration and mobility, race
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Marcelline, Sanayi
Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, convict labour, punishment, sri lanka
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2022
Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery
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2021
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
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2020
Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery
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2016
Bernet, Brigitta; Schiel, Juliane; Tanner, Jakob (Ed.)
Arbeit in der Erweiterung Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: colonialism, fordism, global labour history, historical anthropology, methodology
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