1.
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.)
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities Collection
De Gruyter, 2023.
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2.
Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
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3.
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
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4.
Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
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5.
Bonazza, Giulia; Ongaro, Giulio
Libertà e Coercizione: Il Lavoro in una Prospettiva di Lungo Periodo Book
2018.
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6.
Sarti, Raffaella; Bellavitis, Anna; Martini, Manuela (Ed.)
What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Collection
2018.
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7.
Sundevall, Fia (Ed.)
Fritt och ofritt arbete i Norden: nya perspektiv på Arbetarhistoria Collection
2016.
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8.
Hofmeester, Karin; Lucassen, Jan; da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
No Global history without Africa: Reciprocal Comparison and Beyond Journal Article
In: History in Africa. A Journal of Method, iss. 41, pp. 249-276, 2014.
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9.
Stanziani, Alessandro
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Book
2014.
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2023
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.)
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities Collection
De Gruyter, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, longue duree, migration and mobility
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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
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Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time
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2020
Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: africa, bonded labour, forced labour, humanitarianism, indian ocean, longue duree
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2018
Bonazza, Giulia; Ongaro, Giulio
Libertà e Coercizione: Il Lavoro in una Prospettiva di Lungo Periodo Book
2018.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, historiography, longue duree
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Sarti, Raffaella; Bellavitis, Anna; Martini, Manuela (Ed.)
What is Work? Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present Collection
2018.
Abstract | Tags: gender, household, longue duree
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2016
Sundevall, Fia (Ed.)
Fritt och ofritt arbete i Norden: nya perspektiv på Arbetarhistoria Collection
2016.
Abstract | Tags: denmark, iceland, longue duree, norw, scandinavia
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This special issue of the Swedish language journal “Arbetarhistoria” [Labour history] provides new perspectives on labour history in the Nordic Countries. It consists of four empirical articles exploring various fields and degrees of labour coercion in Denmark, Iceland and Norway between 1600 and 1900.
2014
Hofmeester, Karin; Lucassen, Jan; da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
No Global history without Africa: Reciprocal Comparison and Beyond Journal Article
In: History in Africa. A Journal of Method, iss. 41, pp. 249-276, 2014.
Abstract | Tags: africa, global labour history, longue duree
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This introduction explains why it is important to include the history of labor and labor relations in Africa in Global Labor History. It suggests that the approach of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500–2000 – with its taxonomy of labour relations – is a feasible method for applying this approach to the historiography on labor history in Africa.
Stanziani, Alessandro
Bondage: Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries. Book
2014.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, bonded labour, central asia, europe, indian ocean, intendured labour, longue duree, russia, slavery
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For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. Finally, Stanziani demonstrates that this world did not collapse after the French Revolution or the British industrial revolution, as is commonly assumed, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.