1.
Sefer, Akın
In the Name of Order: (Im)mobilising Wage Labour for the Ottoman Naval Industry in the Nineteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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2.
Wadauer, Sigrid
Contracts under Duress: Work Documents as a Matter and Means of Conflict in the Habsburg Monarchy/ Austria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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3.
de Souza, Marjorie Carvalho
Negotiating the Terms of Wage(less) Labour: Free and Freed Workers as Contractual Parties in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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4.
Magagnoli, Paolo
To Put a Human Face on the Question of Labour: Photographic Portraiture and the Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
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5.
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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In the early 19th century, the British colonial state in Sri Lanka embarked on an experiment in deploying convict labour for salt collecting. ‘Criminals’ from all parts of the island region convicted mainly for robbery and vagrancy and sentenced to hard labour by various courts of justice, were sent to an isolated outpost in the district of Hambantota in the deep south of Sri Lanka to labour at a naturally formed saltern known as the Maha Levaya. Executive, judicial, and administrative actors of the state played a key role in mobilising and immobilising the convicts at the saltern in order to fulfil the dual functions of punishment and profit. This paper contends that the inter-regional and local practice of im/mobilizing convicts to worksites as seen in Hambantota was a micro-spatial process of punishment, exile and labour extraction that was integral to larger processes of social control and labour coercion. However, despite the attempts at confining the convict labour force at the saltern through military and judicial means, the men condemned to labour for salt resisted the conditions of servitude through multiple strategies ranging from flight to evasion.
6.
Flamigni, Matilde
“In Consequence of Considering Herself to be Free”. Freedom and (Im)mobility in the Trans-Imperial Caribbean Space of the 19th Century Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, pp. 676-690, 2023.
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abstract = {Based on both archival material from the European colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, and London and documents held at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, this paper analyses court cases related to petitions submitted by enslaved people to foreign diplomacy in Cuba, exploring the entanglement between mobility in trans-imperial Caribbean space and the use of law by enslaved people in the Age of Abolition. Drawing mainly on legal sources, it emphasizes how slavery and freedom remain ambiguous and contested concepts in the shifting boundaries between free and unfree labor. (Im)mobility – understood both as the transition from one legal status to another and as migration – represented a practice to escape coercion and a tool of control, through which new forms of coercion emerged and were regulated.},
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Based on both archival material from the European colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, and London and documents held at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, this paper analyses court cases related to petitions submitted by enslaved people to foreign diplomacy in Cuba, exploring the entanglement between mobility in trans-imperial Caribbean space and the use of law by enslaved people in the Age of Abolition. Drawing mainly on legal sources, it emphasizes how slavery and freedom remain ambiguous and contested concepts in the shifting boundaries between free and unfree labor. (Im)mobility – understood both as the transition from one legal status to another and as migration – represented a practice to escape coercion and a tool of control, through which new forms of coercion emerged and were regulated.
7.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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8.
Uppenberg, Carolina
Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, 2023.
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9.
Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Contested Households: Lodgers, Labour, and the Law in Rural Iceland in the Early 19th Century Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 572-592, 2023.
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10.
Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Gunnlaugsson, Emil
Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
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11.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
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12.
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
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13.
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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14.
Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
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15.
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Collection
2022.
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and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
16.
Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
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Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
17.
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
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The findings expose how missionaries, as some of earliest examples of Europeans who tried to control African labour, supported and undermined certain livelihood trajectories. Despite the abolition of slavery in 1897 in Zanzibar and the fact that the UMCA was closely linked with the anti-slavery movement, ex-slaves continued to struggle with their social status.
18.
Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
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19.
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
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In the decades around 1900, the German-speaking societies underwent profound changes affecting both work and consumption. Based on more than one hundred diaries, the book examines how people perceived their everyday life. In their eyes, life should above all be fun and provide diversions – in leisure time as well as at work. The bourgeois value of a general industriousness however, by which so many diaries of the 19th century were characterized, played only a subordinate role.
20.
Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
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author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Atlantic Studies},
volume = {17},
issue = {3},
pages = {348-374},
abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
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The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
2024
Sefer, Akın
In the Name of Order: (Im)mobilising Wage Labour for the Ottoman Naval Industry in the Nineteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, ottoman empire, wage labour
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year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
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Wadauer, Sigrid
Contracts under Duress: Work Documents as a Matter and Means of Conflict in the Habsburg Monarchy/ Austria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, 20th century, austria, europe, habsburg empire, wage labour, work contracts
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de Souza, Marjorie Carvalho
Negotiating the Terms of Wage(less) Labour: Free and Freed Workers as Contractual Parties in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, brazil, latin america, wage labour
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author = {Marjorie Carvalho de Souza},
editor = {Anamarija Batista and Viola Müller and Corinna Peres},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
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Magagnoli, Paolo
To Put a Human Face on the Question of Labour: Photographic Portraiture and the Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, art, australia, intendured labour, photography
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year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
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2023
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
@article{nokey,
title = {Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka},
author = {Sanayi Marcelline},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-10-01},
issuetitle = {Exploring labor coercion through im/mobility and the environment (18th-20th centuries)},
journal = {Labor History},
volume = {64},
issue = {6},
abstract = {In the early 19th century, the British colonial state in Sri Lanka embarked on an experiment in deploying convict labour for salt collecting. ‘Criminals’ from all parts of the island region convicted mainly for robbery and vagrancy and sentenced to hard labour by various courts of justice, were sent to an isolated outpost in the district of Hambantota in the deep south of Sri Lanka to labour at a naturally formed saltern known as the Maha Levaya. Executive, judicial, and administrative actors of the state played a key role in mobilising and immobilising the convicts at the saltern in order to fulfil the dual functions of punishment and profit. This paper contends that the inter-regional and local practice of im/mobilizing convicts to worksites as seen in Hambantota was a micro-spatial process of punishment, exile and labour extraction that was integral to larger processes of social control and labour coercion. However, despite the attempts at confining the convict labour force at the saltern through military and judicial means, the men condemned to labour for salt resisted the conditions of servitude through multiple strategies ranging from flight to evasion.},
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In the early 19th century, the British colonial state in Sri Lanka embarked on an experiment in deploying convict labour for salt collecting. ‘Criminals’ from all parts of the island region convicted mainly for robbery and vagrancy and sentenced to hard labour by various courts of justice, were sent to an isolated outpost in the district of Hambantota in the deep south of Sri Lanka to labour at a naturally formed saltern known as the Maha Levaya. Executive, judicial, and administrative actors of the state played a key role in mobilising and immobilising the convicts at the saltern in order to fulfil the dual functions of punishment and profit. This paper contends that the inter-regional and local practice of im/mobilizing convicts to worksites as seen in Hambantota was a micro-spatial process of punishment, exile and labour extraction that was integral to larger processes of social control and labour coercion. However, despite the attempts at confining the convict labour force at the saltern through military and judicial means, the men condemned to labour for salt resisted the conditions of servitude through multiple strategies ranging from flight to evasion.
Flamigni, Matilde
“In Consequence of Considering Herself to be Free”. Freedom and (Im)mobility in the Trans-Imperial Caribbean Space of the 19th Century Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 6, pp. 676-690, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, caribbean, migration and mobility, slavery
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title = {“In Consequence of Considering Herself to be Free”. Freedom and (Im)mobility in the Trans-Imperial Caribbean Space of the 19th Century},
author = {Matilde Flamigni},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Amal Shahid and Müge Telci Özbek},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-08-01},
issuetitle = {Exploring labor coercion through im/mobility and the environment (18th - 20th centuries)},
journal = {Labor History},
volume = {64},
issue = {6},
pages = {676-690},
abstract = {Based on both archival material from the European colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, and London and documents held at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, this paper analyses court cases related to petitions submitted by enslaved people to foreign diplomacy in Cuba, exploring the entanglement between mobility in trans-imperial Caribbean space and the use of law by enslaved people in the Age of Abolition. Drawing mainly on legal sources, it emphasizes how slavery and freedom remain ambiguous and contested concepts in the shifting boundaries between free and unfree labor. (Im)mobility – understood both as the transition from one legal status to another and as migration – represented a practice to escape coercion and a tool of control, through which new forms of coercion emerged and were regulated.},
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Based on both archival material from the European colonial archives in Aix-en-Provence, Madrid, and London and documents held at the Archivo Nacional de la República de Cuba, this paper analyses court cases related to petitions submitted by enslaved people to foreign diplomacy in Cuba, exploring the entanglement between mobility in trans-imperial Caribbean space and the use of law by enslaved people in the Age of Abolition. Drawing mainly on legal sources, it emphasizes how slavery and freedom remain ambiguous and contested concepts in the shifting boundaries between free and unfree labor. (Im)mobility – understood both as the transition from one legal status to another and as migration – represented a practice to escape coercion and a tool of control, through which new forms of coercion emerged and were regulated.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
@book{nokey,
title = { The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History },
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas and Juliane Schiel},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-15},
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This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery – why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based relationships, whilst simultaneously dividing societies by class, race, ethnicity and cultural group. Uncovering slavery as a globalising phenomenon, the authors highlight the slave-trading routes that crisscrossed Africa, helped integrate the Mediterranean world, connected Indian Ocean societies and fused the Atlantic world. Split into five parts, the handbook portrays the evolution of slavery from antiquity to the contemporary era and encourages readers to realise similarities and differences between various manifestations of slavery throughout history. Providing a truly global coverage of slavery, and including thematic injections within each chronological part, this handbook is a comprehensive and transnational resource for all researchers interested in slavery, the history of labour, and anthropology.
Uppenberg, Carolina
Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, europe, gender, household, scandinavia, service, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-30},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
abstract = {In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, characterized by corvée labour (obligatory work as payment), from the perspective of gender and coercion. The purpose is to answer the question of how the crofter institution was created, shaped, enabled and questioned. The right to establish a croft made the position as head of household available for men but it also increased social stratification. While crofters were masters of their households in contract signing, their position was ambiguous when it came to the organization of labour. Regarding physical integrity, crofters could be forced by physical violence and were subject to rules not connected to work, such as subservience. I argue that this was made acceptable through marriage and allowing the position as head of household to landless men. Crofters held an intermediate position, caught between the market logic of leasehold of land and the coercive logic of labour extraction, and this continued to colour the crofter institution until its final dissolution in 1943.},
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In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, characterized by corvée labour (obligatory work as payment), from the perspective of gender and coercion. The purpose is to answer the question of how the crofter institution was created, shaped, enabled and questioned. The right to establish a croft made the position as head of household available for men but it also increased social stratification. While crofters were masters of their households in contract signing, their position was ambiguous when it came to the organization of labour. Regarding physical integrity, crofters could be forced by physical violence and were subject to rules not connected to work, such as subservience. I argue that this was made acceptable through marriage and allowing the position as head of household to landless men. Crofters held an intermediate position, caught between the market logic of leasehold of land and the coercive logic of labour extraction, and this continued to colour the crofter institution until its final dissolution in 1943.
Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Contested Households: Lodgers, Labour, and the Law in Rural Iceland in the Early 19th Century Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 572-592, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, agrarian labour and rural history, europe, household, iceland, labour law, scandinavia, service
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date = {2023-04-05},
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abstract = {The historiography of labour in pre-industrial Iceland has commonly portrayed it first and foremost as life-cycle service in rural households and has suggested that, in a European context, the Icelandic system of compulsory service – or vistarband – was exceptionally harsh due to its broad scope and inflexibility. This approach has been built primarily on demographics and a normative analysis of legal sources. Less attention has been paid to the everyday practices of workers and their employers (or the state) as they manoeuvred within and around the labour legislation to establish working relationships to make ends meet. Similarly, ambiguities within the legislation and discrepancies between law and practice have rarely been explored, nor has people’s understanding of the principal concepts of the labour laws, concepts such as ‘household’, ‘farm’ and ‘servant’, been scrutinized. This article invokes such questions and provides a microhistorical analysis of two court cases which illustrate the nuances and ambiguities of putting such a broad-reaching set of regulations into practice in a pre-industrial rural setting.},
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Gunnlaugsson, Emil
Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, europe, iceland, labour law, migration and mobility, scandinavia
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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2022
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, economic development, globalisation, labour markets, nation state
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author = {Peter-Paul Bänziger},
editor = {Ursula Mense and Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {In Search of the Global Labor Market},
abstract = {The article argues that labor markets emerged in close relation to a far-reaching societal transformation at the turn of the twentieth century: the largely intertwined consolidations of the nation state and of a new mode of conceptualizing and institutionalizing labour as “work”. Against this background it further argues that labour markets were at most partially denationalized in the course of the past few decades.
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The article argues that labor markets emerged in close relation to a far-reaching societal transformation at the turn of the twentieth century: the largely intertwined consolidations of the nation state and of a new mode of conceptualizing and institutionalizing labour as “work”. Against this background it further argues that labour markets were at most partially denationalized in the course of the past few decades.
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
Tags: 19th century, convict labour, latin america, punishment, slavery, united states
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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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abstract = {This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
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This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, punishment, runaways, slavery, united states
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abstract = {Despite the successful maneuvers of many runaways to escape slavery in the slaveholding South, considerable numbers did not make it and were apprehended by slave patrols, civilians, or watchmen. What happened to those among them who were subsequently not reclaimed by their legal owners? To answer this question, this paper focuses on the punishment and forced employment of runaway slaves by city and state authorities rather than by individual slaveholders. It follows enslaved southerners into workhouses, chain gains, and penitentiaries, thereby connecting different institutions within the nineteenth-century penal system. Exploring collaboration and clashes between slaveholders and the authorities, it will discuss how the forced employment of runaways fitted in with the broader understanding of Black labor and the restructuring of labor demands in the antebellum US South.
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Despite the successful maneuvers of many runaways to escape slavery in the slaveholding South, considerable numbers did not make it and were apprehended by slave patrols, civilians, or watchmen. What happened to those among them who were subsequently not reclaimed by their legal owners? To answer this question, this paper focuses on the punishment and forced employment of runaway slaves by city and state authorities rather than by individual slaveholders. It follows enslaved southerners into workhouses, chain gains, and penitentiaries, thereby connecting different institutions within the nineteenth-century penal system. Exploring collaboration and clashes between slaveholders and the authorities, it will discuss how the forced employment of runaways fitted in with the broader understanding of Black labor and the restructuring of labor demands in the antebellum US South.
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Collection
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, nation state, ottoman empire, turkey
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series = {International Studies in Social History},
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and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity
@book{nokey,
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Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
2021
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, religion, slavery, Tanganjika, Zanzibar
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour
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2020
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, consumption history, germany, history of everyday life, modernity
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year = {2020},
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abstract = {In the decades around 1900, the German-speaking societies underwent profound changes affecting both work and consumption. Based on more than one hundred diaries, the book examines how people perceived their everyday life. In their eyes, life should above all be fun and provide diversions – in leisure time as well as at work. The bourgeois value of a general industriousness however, by which so many diaries of the 19th century were characterized, played only a subordinate role.
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In the decades around 1900, the German-speaking societies underwent profound changes affecting both work and consumption. Based on more than one hundred diaries, the book examines how people perceived their everyday life. In their eyes, life should above all be fun and provide diversions – in leisure time as well as at work. The bourgeois value of a general industriousness however, by which so many diaries of the 19th century were characterized, played only a subordinate role.
Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
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year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
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abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
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The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, Erdem M. (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Bachelor Thesis
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, ottoman empire, turkey
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abstract = {As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The 14 studies in “Working in Greece and Turkey” provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
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Papastefanaki, Leda
Family, Gender, and Labour in the Greek Mines, 1860–1940 Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 65, iss. 2, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, gender, greece, mining
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issue = {2},
abstract = {To date, research on work in the mines in Greece has ignored the significance of gender in the workplace, since mining is associated exclusively with male labour. As such, it is considered, indirectly, not subject to gender relations. The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities. Sources include: official publications of the Mines Inspectorate and the Mines and Industrial Censuses, the Greek Miners’ Fund Archive, British and French consular reports, various economic and technical reports by experts, literature and narratives, the local press from mining regions, and the Archive of the Seriphos Mines.
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To date, research on work in the mines in Greece has ignored the significance of gender in the workplace, since mining is associated exclusively with male labour. As such, it is considered, indirectly, not subject to gender relations. The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities. Sources include: official publications of the Mines Inspectorate and the Mines and Industrial Censuses, the Greek Miners’ Fund Archive, British and French consular reports, various economic and technical reports by experts, literature and narratives, the local press from mining regions, and the Archive of the Seriphos Mines.
Piqueras, José Antonio
The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery, pp. 79-103, 2020.
Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery
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Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class
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author = {Sami Suodenjoki and Leena Enbom and Pete Pesonen},
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date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.},
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This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.
2019
Angelova, Milena
Тhe Transfer of Modern Agricultural Knowledge among the Bulgarians in the Danube Province (1860s–1870s) Book Chapter
In: Iakovos D. Michailidis, Antoniou Giorgos (Ed.): Institution Building and Research under Foreign Domination Europe and the Black Sea Region (early 19th–early 20th centuries), pp. 93-106, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, agrarian labour and rural history, bulgaria, central and eastern europe
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author = {Milena Angelova},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
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abstract = {This article discusses some problems related to the introduction of “agricultural enlightenment” among Bulgarians in the second half of the 19th century. This paper is structured in several accents. It firstly demonstrates the relationship between “the enlightened peasant” and the agricultural education in Western Europe during the 18th-19th centuries. This research mainly focuses on the first generation of Bulgarians who received agricultural education abroad. These graduates, the first generation of Bulgarian agronomists who graduated from European schools and universities, were regarded as “agents” for the transfer of agricultural knowledge, which acquainted Bulgarians with the “modern” West.
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This article discusses some problems related to the introduction of “agricultural enlightenment” among Bulgarians in the second half of the 19th century. This paper is structured in several accents. It firstly demonstrates the relationship between “the enlightened peasant” and the agricultural education in Western Europe during the 18th-19th centuries. This research mainly focuses on the first generation of Bulgarians who received agricultural education abroad. These graduates, the first generation of Bulgarian agronomists who graduated from European schools and universities, were regarded as “agents” for the transfer of agricultural knowledge, which acquainted Bulgarians with the “modern” West.
Müller, Viola
Early Undocumented Workers: Runaway Slaves and African Americans in the American Urban South, c. 1830-1860 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 60, pp. 865-868, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, race, runaways, slavery, united states
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journal = {Labor History},
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abstract = {Between 1800 and 1860, thousands of people escaped slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the US South. There, runaway slaves joined free African Americans, of whom many were undocumented residents of their states. This ‘undocumentedness’ placed them in a liminal status between free and unfree. The increasingly disadvantageous socio-economic position of the free black population created opportunities for runaway slaves to blend in in large numbers, as well as for the undocumented as a whole to make ends meet.
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Between 1800 and 1860, thousands of people escaped slavery by making their way to the burgeoning cities and towns within the US South. There, runaway slaves joined free African Americans, of whom many were undocumented residents of their states. This ‘undocumentedness’ placed them in a liminal status between free and unfree. The increasingly disadvantageous socio-economic position of the free black population created opportunities for runaway slaves to blend in in large numbers, as well as for the undocumented as a whole to make ends meet.
Suodenjoki, Sami
Turning the landless into socialists: Agrarian reforms and resistance as drivers of political mobilisation in Finland, 1880-1914 Book Chapter
In: Regan, Joe; Smith, Cathal (Ed.): Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an Age of Globalisation: The Euro-American World and Beyond, 1780-1914, pp. 170-184, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, finland, labour movements, socialism, working class
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This article addresses how the rise of the socialist movement in the Finnish countryside was linked with the agrarian relations and the changes in agriculture and landownership in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Rediker, Marcus; Chakraborty, Titas; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.)
A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 Collection
2019.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, capitalism, early modern history, global labour history, migration and mobility, runaways
@collection{nokey,
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editor = {Marcus Rediker and Titas Chakraborty and Matthias van Rossum},
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abstract = {During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. "A Global History of Runaways" compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
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During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. "A Global History of Runaways" compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
2018
Müller, Viola
Illegal but Ignored: Slave Refugees in Richmond, Virginia, 1800-1860 Book Chapter
In: Pargas, Damian Alan (Ed.): Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America, 1775-1860, pp. 137-167, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, slavery, united states
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abstract = {This chapter examines the experiences of runaway slaves in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. It asks why and how slave refugees were able to carve out living spaces for themselves, what the consequences of this ‘illegal freedom’ were, and how city authorities dealt with them. It shows that Richmond was one of many places within slaveholding territory where slave refugees could live as if they were free.
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This chapter examines the experiences of runaway slaves in antebellum Richmond, Virginia. It asks why and how slave refugees were able to carve out living spaces for themselves, what the consequences of this ‘illegal freedom’ were, and how city authorities dealt with them. It shows that Richmond was one of many places within slaveholding territory where slave refugees could live as if they were free.
Østhus, Hanne
Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet Journal Article
In: Arbeiderhistorie, vol. 22, pp. 33-47, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, denmark, domestic service, early modern history, norway, service, slavery
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title = { Slaver og ikke-europeiske tjenestefolk i Danmark og Norge på 1700- og begynnelsen av 1800-tallet},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
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volume = {22},
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abstract = {The article examines the situation of slaves and former slaves who were brought, presumably by force, from Africa, Asia and America to the European part of Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to work as domestic servants in households. Based on source material from servant reward societies, censuses, newspapers and court cases, it is argued that state and society utilised a number of strategies to classify and categorise slaves and former slaves.
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The article examines the situation of slaves and former slaves who were brought, presumably by force, from Africa, Asia and America to the European part of Denmark-Norway during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to work as domestic servants in households. Based on source material from servant reward societies, censuses, newspapers and court cases, it is argued that state and society utilised a number of strategies to classify and categorise slaves and former slaves.
Stojić, Biljana
Kordun od razvojačenja do ujedinjenja (1881-1918) Book Chapter
In: za savremenu istoriju, Institut (Ed.): Kordun – od Vojne granice do Republike Srpske Krajine 1881-1995, pp. 19-134, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, central and eastern europe, ethnic and religious minorities, habsburg empire, serbia
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date = {2018-01-01},
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abstract = {The chapter deals with the Serbian minority living in Austria-Hungary, most precisely in Kordun, a region of Croatia. As a research time frame, it was chosen in 1881 when Austria-Hungary decided to dissolute the last parts of the Military border and to incorporate them into civil societies. The end of research served the end of WWI and integration of Kordun and Croatia into the new state of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). The main topic was the social and political transformation of Kordun accompanying social inequality of minorities as against the majority. I was most interested in research forms of social dependences, mobility of people within the Empire and abroad, the position of Serbian Orthodox Church, oppressions of the state to enforce its policy, mobilization of the minority into army forces during WWI.
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Uppenberg, Carolina
I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860] PhD Thesis
2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, labour markets, service, sweden
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title = {I husbondens bröd och arbete. Kön, makt och kontrakt i det svenska tjänstefolkssystemet 1730–1860 [Servants and masters. Gender, contract, and power relations in the servant institution in Sweden, 1730-1860]},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-01},
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abstract = {In my doctoral thesis I studied the institution of rural servants from a labour market and a gender perspective. Pre-industrial servants were subject to compulsory service, but at the same time part of a labour market where they could choose their employer freely. I the thesis I examined the laws shaping the institution, the handling of the laws in court, and the discourse of free and unfree labour relations surrounding servants and masters.},
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Evans, Chris; Rydén, Göran
‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact Journal Article
In: Past & Present, vol. 239, iss. 1, 2018.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, atlanic, commodity chains, early modern history, slavery, sweden
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date = {2018-01-01},
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volume = {239},
issue = {1},
abstract = {An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
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An array of goods was traded to Africa in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Many were eye-catching consumer goods; others were far more mundane, including ‘voyage iron’, a metal forged in northern Europe, bars of which acted as a currency along the West African coast. This article examines the geography of voyage iron production, showing that it originated in places – primarily Sweden – that are not often thought of as being connected to Atlantic commerce. It then considers the impact that European iron had on West Africa, where iron smelting was very well-established locally. The vibrancy of African metallurgy has led some distinguished Africanists to dismiss voyage iron as marginal to African needs. By contrast, it is contended here that European iron underpinned an agro-environmental transformation of the coastal forests in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played a major role in the spread of New World crops in West Africa. Voyage iron was a superficially unremarkable producer good but it contributed to a profound reshaping of the economic geography of West Africa.
2017
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Sin, Slave Status and the City in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930 Journal Article
In: African Studies Review, vol. 60, pp. 139-60, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar
@article{nokey,
title = {Sin, Slave Status and the City in Zanzibar, 1864-c.1930},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {African Studies Review},
volume = {60},
pages = {139-60},
abstract = {Missionaries believed that being an ex-slave or descendant of ex-slave went hand with urbanity and moral contagion. As far as the ex-slaves were concerned, the growing commercial centre of Zanzibar, and the coastal cultures it was associated with, were not only enticing, but crucial to social and economic mobility. Thus, though livelihoods could be found at the mission, young and able workers looked to the town to increase their chances of survival.
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Missionaries believed that being an ex-slave or descendant of ex-slave went hand with urbanity and moral contagion. As far as the ex-slaves were concerned, the growing commercial centre of Zanzibar, and the coastal cultures it was associated with, were not only enticing, but crucial to social and economic mobility. Thus, though livelihoods could be found at the mission, young and able workers looked to the town to increase their chances of survival.
Pargas, Damian Alan
Urban Refugees: Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Informal Freedom in the American South, 1800-1860 Journal Article
In: Journal of Early American History, vol. 7, iss. 3, pp. 262-284, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, slavery, united kingdom
@article{nokey,
title = {Urban Refugees: Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Informal Freedom in the American South, 1800-1860},
author = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Early American History},
volume = {7},
issue = {3},
pages = {262-284},
abstract = {This article examines the experiences of runaway slaves who fled to urban areas within the American South, rather than to free-soil states and territories in North America. By utilizing free black social networks, changing their names and appearances, and procuring forged free papers just in case they were stopped by authorities, they managed to forge clandestine lives of informal freedom right in the heart of the slaveholding South.
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This article examines the experiences of runaway slaves who fled to urban areas within the American South, rather than to free-soil states and territories in North America. By utilizing free black social networks, changing their names and appearances, and procuring forged free papers just in case they were stopped by authorities, they managed to forge clandestine lives of informal freedom right in the heart of the slaveholding South.
Terra, Paulo Cruz
Trabalhadores escravizados e livres na legislação municipal (Rio de Janeiro, século XIX) Book Chapter
In: Pestana, Marco Marques; de Carvalho Costa, Rafael Maul; de Oliveira, Tiago Bernardon (Ed.): Subalternos em movimento: mobilização e enfrentamento à dominação no Brasil, pp. 95-208, 2017.
Tags: 19th century, brazil, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Trabalhadores escravizados e livres na legislação municipal (Rio de Janeiro, século XIX)},
author = {Paulo Cruz Terra},
editor = {Marco Marques Pestana and Rafael Maul de Carvalho Costa and Tiago Bernardon de Oliveira},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Subalternos em movimento: mobilização e enfrentamento à dominação no Brasil},
pages = {95-208},
keywords = {19th century, brazil, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Uppenberg, Carolina
The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience Book Chapter
In: Whittle, Jane (Ed.): Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900, pp. 167–182, 2017.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, domestic service, early modern history, gender, service, sweden, work contracts
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The servant institution during the Swedish agrarian revolution: the political economy of subservience},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
editor = {Jane Whittle},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {Servants in rural Europe 1400–1900},
pages = {167–182},
abstract = {This article develops the gendered aspects of the various dimensions of the servant institution. It is shown that male and female servants had different levels of freedom in their labour contracts, and this is related to the later development of a feminized servant position.
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This article develops the gendered aspects of the various dimensions of the servant institution. It is shown that male and female servants had different levels of freedom in their labour contracts, and this is related to the later development of a feminized servant position.
2016
Kaarsholm, Preben
Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s Journal Article
In: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 42, iss. 3, pp. 443-461, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, indian ocean, intendured labour, migration and mobility, slavery, South Africa
@article{nokey,
title = {Indian Ocean Networks and the Transmutations of Servitude: The Protector of Indian Immigrants and the Administration of Freed Slaves and Indentured Labourers in Durban in the 1870s},
author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
urldate = {2016-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Southern African Studies},
volume = {42},
issue = {3},
pages = { 443-461},
abstract = {Focusing on Durban and its harbour, the article discusses the importation of different kinds oftransnational bonded labour into Natal in the last half of the 19th century, and examines theways in which Southern African and Indian Ocean histories were intertwined in the processesthat built the colonial state. The institution of the Protector of Indian Immigrants is highlightedas a central ingredient in state building, which served to give legitimacy in regulating the supplyof labour. The early history of the Protector’s work in the 1870s is given special attention asregards the introduction into Natal of freed slaves from the Indian Ocean coast, of indenturedlabourers from India, and of ‘Amatonga’ migrant workers from Mozambique. An 1877 murdercase is discussed, which led to the forced resignation of a Protector, as it threatened to underminethe respectability of the institution. The article shows the continuities that existed between formsof servitude from slavery and forced labour through the recruitment of ‘liberated Africans’ andindentured Indians to more recent types of migrant and voluntary wage labour.
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keywords = {19th century, africa, indian ocean, intendured labour, migration and mobility, slavery, South Africa},
pubstate = {published},
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Focusing on Durban and its harbour, the article discusses the importation of different kinds oftransnational bonded labour into Natal in the last half of the 19th century, and examines theways in which Southern African and Indian Ocean histories were intertwined in the processesthat built the colonial state. The institution of the Protector of Indian Immigrants is highlightedas a central ingredient in state building, which served to give legitimacy in regulating the supplyof labour. The early history of the Protector’s work in the 1870s is given special attention asregards the introduction into Natal of freed slaves from the Indian Ocean coast, of indenturedlabourers from India, and of ‘Amatonga’ migrant workers from Mozambique. An 1877 murdercase is discussed, which led to the forced resignation of a Protector, as it threatened to underminethe respectability of the institution. The article shows the continuities that existed between formsof servitude from slavery and forced labour through the recruitment of ‘liberated Africans’ andindentured Indians to more recent types of migrant and voluntary wage labour.
Mendiola, Fernando
The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, 19th-21st centuries Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 61, pp. 187-211, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, capitalism, contemporary, forced labour, spain
@article{nokey,
title = {The role of unfree labour in capitalist development: Spain and its empire, 19th-21st centuries},
author = {Fernando Mendiola},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {61},
pages = {187-211},
abstract = {This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour. The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour.
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This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour. The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour.
Piqueras, José Antonio
The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracon: The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): The Politics of the Second Slavery, pp. 83-111, 2016.
Tags: 19th century, latin america, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Return to the casa de vivienda and the barracon: The Terms of Social Action in Slave Plantations},
author = {José Antonio Piqueras},
editor = {Dale Tomich},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {The Politics of the Second Slavery},
pages = {83-111},
keywords = {19th century, latin america, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
Political Changes and Shifts in Labour Relations in Mozambique, 1820s-1920s Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 61, iss. 1, no. 1-21, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, mozambique, portugal
@article{nokey,
title = {Political Changes and Shifts in Labour Relations in Mozambique, 1820s-1920s},
author = {Filipa Ribeiro da Silva},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History},
volume = {61},
number = {1-21},
issue = {1},
abstract = {This article examines the main changes in the policies of the Portuguese state in relation to Mozambique and its labour force during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stemming from political changes within the Portuguese Empire (i.e. the independence of Brazil in 1821), the European political scene (i.e. the Berlin Conference, 1884–1885), and the Southern African context (i.e. the growing British, French, and German presence). By becoming a principle mobilizer and employer of labour power in the territory, an allocator of labour to neighbouring colonial states, and by granting private companies authority to play identical roles, the Portuguese state brought about important shifts in labour relations in Mozambique.
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This article examines the main changes in the policies of the Portuguese state in relation to Mozambique and its labour force during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stemming from political changes within the Portuguese Empire (i.e. the independence of Brazil in 1821), the European political scene (i.e. the Berlin Conference, 1884–1885), and the Southern African context (i.e. the growing British, French, and German presence). By becoming a principle mobilizer and employer of labour power in the territory, an allocator of labour to neighbouring colonial states, and by granting private companies authority to play identical roles, the Portuguese state brought about important shifts in labour relations in Mozambique.
Ristovska-Josifovska, Biljana
On the Road of One Migration of Macedonians Towards Bulgaria in the Late 19th Century Book Chapter
In: : A.I.E.S.E.E. (Macedonian National Committee, Macedonian Academy of Sciences; Arts), (Ed.): Tradition in Communication and in the Spiritual Culture of Southeast Europe (Law‚ Economics, Natural Sciences, Art, Literature, Language), pp. 221-242, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, bulgaria, central and eastern europe, macedonia, migration and mobility
@inbook{nokey,
title = {On the Road of One Migration of Macedonians Towards Bulgaria in the Late 19th Century},
author = {Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska},
editor = {: A.I.E.S.E.E. (Macedonian National Committee, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Tradition in Communication and in the Spiritual Culture of Southeast Europe (Law‚ Economics, Natural Sciences, Art, Literature, Language)},
pages = {221-242},
abstract = {The study is on the migration of Macedonians from northeastern part of Macedonia towards the region Tuzluk in Bulgaria, in the late 19th century. The research covers the memories of descendants of the generations that originally populated the region, as well as the documentation concerning their resettlement.
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The study is on the migration of Macedonians from northeastern part of Macedonia towards the region Tuzluk in Bulgaria, in the late 19th century. The research covers the memories of descendants of the generations that originally populated the region, as well as the documentation concerning their resettlement.
Tolino, Serena
The History of Prostitution in Egypt (1885-1949): From Regulation to Prohibition Book Chapter
In: Kurz, Susanne; Preckel, Claudia; Reichmuth, Stefan (Ed.): Muslim Bodies: Körper, Sexualität und Medizin in muslimischen Gesellschaften, pp. 131-154, 2016.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, egypt, gender, muslims, prostitution
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The History of Prostitution in Egypt (1885-1949): From Regulation to Prohibition},
author = {Serena Tolino},
editor = {Susanne Kurz and Claudia Preckel and Stefan Reichmuth},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-01},
booktitle = {Muslim Bodies: Körper, Sexualität und Medizin in muslimischen Gesellschaften},
pages = {131-154},
abstract = {This article explores the legal path that prostitution underwent in Egypt, from regulation to abolition to prohibition. It represents a first mapping of laws related to sex work in Egypt, that will allow in the future to embed research on sex work into labour history.
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This article explores the legal path that prostitution underwent in Egypt, from regulation to abolition to prohibition. It represents a first mapping of laws related to sex work in Egypt, that will allow in the future to embed research on sex work into labour history.
2015
Ristovska-Josifovska, Biljana
Remembrance on the Migration Movements in Macedonia after the Russian-Ottoman War of 1877-1878 Journal Article
In: Balkanistic Forum, vol. XXIV, iss. 3, 2015.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, central and eastern europe, macedonia, migration and mobility, ottoman empire, russia
@article{nokey,
title = {Remembrance on the Migration Movements in Macedonia after the Russian-Ottoman War of 1877-1878},
author = {Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
urldate = {2015-01-01},
journal = {Balkanistic Forum},
volume = {XXIV},
issue = {3},
abstract = {The events in Macedonia, associated with the end of the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) and the unsuccessful liberation actions of the Macedonian people, created a complex political and economic situation, producing violence and exile. The paper focuses on the migrations as consequences, researching the reflection in various forms of stored memories and memorized history.
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The events in Macedonia, associated with the end of the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) and the unsuccessful liberation actions of the Macedonian people, created a complex political and economic situation, producing violence and exile. The paper focuses on the migrations as consequences, researching the reflection in various forms of stored memories and memorized history.
Rossi, Benedetta
From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 Book
2015.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, development
@book{nokey,
title = {From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000},
author = {Benedetta Rossi},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
abstract = {This book engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. It traces the historical transformations that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of ‘aid’. Covering about two centuries – from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present – this study explores the problem that has remained the central conundrum throughout Ader’s history: how workers could meet subsistence needs and employers fulfil recruitment requirements in an area where natural resources are constantly exposed to the climatic hazards characteristic of the edge of the Sahara.
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This book engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. It traces the historical transformations that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of ‘aid’. Covering about two centuries – from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present – this study explores the problem that has remained the central conundrum throughout Ader’s history: how workers could meet subsistence needs and employers fulfil recruitment requirements in an area where natural resources are constantly exposed to the climatic hazards characteristic of the edge of the Sahara.
2014
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
African Workers and the Universities‘ Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900 Journal Article
In: Journal of Eastern African Studies, vol. 8, iss. 3, pp. 366-381, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, africa, christianity, slavery, Zanzibar
@article{nokey,
title = {African Workers and the Universities‘ Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864–1900},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst },
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Eastern African Studies},
volume = {8},
issue = {3},
pages = {366-381},
abstract = {This article explores the connections between African workers and Christian missions in late nineteenth-century Zanzibar. The main finding is that missionaries found themselves hiring slaves in order to build their cathedral, which is ironically a symbol of abolition.
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This article explores the connections between African workers and Christian missions in late nineteenth-century Zanzibar. The main finding is that missionaries found themselves hiring slaves in order to build their cathedral, which is ironically a symbol of abolition.
Pargas, Damian Alan
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, slavery, united states
@book{nokey,
title = {Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South},
author = {Damian Alan Pargas},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
urldate = {2014-01-01},
abstract = {This book sheds light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.
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This book sheds light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. Juxtaposing and contrasting the experiences of long-distance, local, and urban slave migrants, it analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.
Terra, Paulo Cruz
Free and Unfree Labour and Ethnic Conflicts in the Brazilian Transport Industry: Rio de Janeiro in the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 59, iss. 1, pp. 113-132, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, brazil, race, working conditions
@article{nokey,
title = {Free and Unfree Labour and Ethnic Conflicts in the Brazilian Transport Industry: Rio de Janeiro in the Nineteenth Century},
author = {Paulo Cruz Terra},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {59},
issue = {1},
pages = {113-132},
abstract = {Over the course of the nineteenth century, major changes transformed the transport of people and freight in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil during this period. These transformations involved both technological change, as transport evolved first from carriages and carts to horse-drawn trams and then to electric trams, as well as economic developments, such as the establishment of the first tram companies, many of which became important vehicles for foreign capital to enter Brazil. Although there has been extensive research from various angles into the changes undergone by the city's transport sector, there remains, however, a significant lacuna in the existing literature: the workers involved in that sector. The aim of this article is to analyse the workforce of the urban transport sector in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century, and to understand the labour that these workers provided, how they were affected by the transformations in the sector, and, at the same time, how they responded to those transformations. During this period, issues such as the connections between free and unfree labour, ethnic conflicts, and work regulation were very important in transport work in Rio de Janeiro, and they are explored in the text.
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Over the course of the nineteenth century, major changes transformed the transport of people and freight in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil during this period. These transformations involved both technological change, as transport evolved first from carriages and carts to horse-drawn trams and then to electric trams, as well as economic developments, such as the establishment of the first tram companies, many of which became important vehicles for foreign capital to enter Brazil. Although there has been extensive research from various angles into the changes undergone by the city's transport sector, there remains, however, a significant lacuna in the existing literature: the workers involved in that sector. The aim of this article is to analyse the workforce of the urban transport sector in Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century, and to understand the labour that these workers provided, how they were affected by the transformations in the sector, and, at the same time, how they responded to those transformations. During this period, issues such as the connections between free and unfree labour, ethnic conflicts, and work regulation were very important in transport work in Rio de Janeiro, and they are explored in the text.
2013
Sefer, Akın
From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History, vol. 58, iss. 3, pp. 395-428, 2013.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, ottoman empire, revolt and revolution, working class
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title = {From Class Solidarity to Revolution: The Radicalization of Arsenal Workers in the Late Ottoman Empire},
author = {Akın Sefer},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History},
volume = {58},
issue = {3},
pages = {395-428},
abstract = {This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Arsenal (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul. It explores, from a class-formation perspective, the struggles and relations of Arsenal workers, including the conscripts and children employed here, from the second half of the nineteenth century until the revolution.
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This article introduces a bottom-up perspective to the history of the Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the experiences of workers in the Imperial Arsenal (Tersane-i Amire) in Istanbul. It explores, from a class-formation perspective, the struggles and relations of Arsenal workers, including the conscripts and children employed here, from the second half of the nineteenth century until the revolution.
2012
Kučera, Rudolf
Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844 Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 46, iss. 2, pp. 430-448, 2012.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, bohemian lands, gender, labour movements, working class
@article{nokey,
title = {Marginalizing Josefina: Work, Gender, and Protest in Bohemia 1820–1844},
author = {Rudolf Kučera },
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Social History},
volume = {46},
issue = {2},
pages = {430-448},
abstract = {The study concentrates on the pre-1848 labor protests in Bohemia and analyzes them with respect to questions of gender. The paper explores how the codes and institutions of skilled labor masculinity shaped working-class collective action in pre-1848 Bohemia – one of the most industrialized European regions during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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The study concentrates on the pre-1848 labor protests in Bohemia and analyzes them with respect to questions of gender. The paper explores how the codes and institutions of skilled labor masculinity shaped working-class collective action in pre-1848 Bohemia – one of the most industrialized European regions during the first half of the nineteenth century.
2011
Seppel, Marten
Landlords’ Medical Care for their Serfs in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire Journal Article
In: Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 89, iss. 2, pp. 201-223, 2011.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, baltic states, early modern history, russia, serfdom
@article{nokey,
title = {Landlords’ Medical Care for their Serfs in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire},
author = {Marten Seppel},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
journal = {Slavonic and East European Review},
volume = {89},
issue = {2},
pages = {201-223},
abstract = {The article looks at the opportunities of serfs to get medical care in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. It argues that although at the beginning of the nineteenth century the manors still played the main role as providers and mediators of medical aid to the peasantry, pressure to improve serfs’ health standards had started to come from the state and the authors of popular enlightenment from the 1760s.
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The article looks at the opportunities of serfs to get medical care in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire. It argues that although at the beginning of the nineteenth century the manors still played the main role as providers and mediators of medical aid to the peasantry, pressure to improve serfs’ health standards had started to come from the state and the authors of popular enlightenment from the 1760s.
2010
Özbek, Müge Telci
The Regulation of Prostitution in Beyoğlu, 1875-1915 Journal Article
In: Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 46, iss. 4, 2010.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, class, gender, ottoman empire, prostitution, turkey
@article{nokey,
title = {The Regulation of Prostitution in Beyoğlu, 1875-1915},
author = {Müge Telci Özbek},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-01-01},
journal = {Middle Eastern Studies},
volume = {46},
issue = {4},
abstract = {This study examines the development and nature of the regulation of prostitution in Beyoğlu during the late Ottoman Empire with special emphasis on the way the regulationist regime reinforced existing patterns of class and gender domination. The regulation of prostitution became a matter of urgency in the last decades of the nineteenth century in Istanbul, particularly in Beyoğlu, the cosmopolitan center of the city.},
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This study examines the development and nature of the regulation of prostitution in Beyoğlu during the late Ottoman Empire with special emphasis on the way the regulationist regime reinforced existing patterns of class and gender domination. The regulation of prostitution became a matter of urgency in the last decades of the nineteenth century in Istanbul, particularly in Beyoğlu, the cosmopolitan center of the city.
2008
Weber, Klaus; Meissner, Jochen; Mücke, Ulrich
Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery] Book
2008.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, latin america, slavery, united states
@book{nokey,
title = { Schwarzes Amerika. Eine Geschichte der Sklaverei [Black America. A History of Slavery]},
author = {Klaus Weber and Jochen Meissner and Ulrich Mücke},
year = {2008},
date = {2008-01-01},
keywords = {19th century, early modern history, latin america, slavery, united states},
pubstate = {published},
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