1.
Karev, Ella
Nemeh in Pharaonic Egypt: ‘Free’ or ‘Miserable’? A Case Study of Historical Semantics Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 62-79, 2023.
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2.
Özbek, Müge Telci
Keeping Domestic Workers Dependent in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul 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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3.
Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
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4.
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
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5.
Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
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6.
Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
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7.
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
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8.
Bonazza, Giulia; Ongaro, Giulio
Libertà e Coercizione: Il Lavoro in una Prospettiva di Lungo Periodo Book
2018.
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9.
Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
Freedom and Dependency: Neo-Babylonian Manumission Documents with Oblation and Service Obligation Book Chapter
In: Kozuh, Michael; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Jones, Charles E.; Woods, Christopher (Ed.): Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper, pp. 337-346, 2014.
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2023
Karev, Ella
Nemeh in Pharaonic Egypt: ‘Free’ or ‘Miserable’? A Case Study of Historical Semantics Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 62-79, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: ancient history, dependency, egypt, historical semantics
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Özbek, Müge Telci
Keeping Domestic Workers Dependent in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul 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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2022
Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery
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2021
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
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2020
Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden
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Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, global labour history, historical semantics, methodology, new history of work
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2019
Fudge, Judy
(Re)Conceptualizing Unfree Labour: Local Labour Control Regimes and Constraints on Workers‘ Freedoms‘ Journal Article
In: Global Labour Journal , vol. 10, iss. 2, pp. 108-122, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: capitalism, contemporary, dependency, forced labour, labour markets, new history of work, slavery
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Disputes over the meaning of human trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery have both provoked and coincided with a reinvigorated debate in academic and policy literatures about how to conceptualise unfree labour. This article traces the contours of the debate over free and unfree labour, identifying its key stakes as the debate has developed and paying particular attention to recent interventions. It begins by identifying a problem common to both canonical liberal and Marxian approaches to the free/unfree labour distinction, which is to fetishise the labour market. It then discusses the consensus that is emerging across disciplines and in leading international organisations that labour unfreedom in contemporary capitalism is best conceptualised as a continuum rather than a binary, highlighting recent disciplinary-specific contributions. It argues that the metaphor of a continuum of labour unfreedom obscures more than it illuminates. Drawing upon the growing body of literature that advocates a multifaceted approach to labour unfreedom, this article argues that a robust concept of local labour control regime does a much better job of capturing the complex mix of consent and coercion involved in extracting value from labour power than the idea of a continuum of labour unfreedom.
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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The essays collected in the book aim at analysing on the long run the various types of work relations. The main topics are free and unfree labour, and the relationship between freedom, coercion and precariousness. On the one hand, the book focuses on the social, cultural, political, economic, juridical and technological factors that affected the diversification of labour relations; on the other hand, it aims at deconstructing the historiographical perspective linking modernity to the transition from many labour relations to wage labour, as the only form of productive labour.
2014
Wunsch, Cornelia; Rachel, Magdalene F.
Freedom and Dependency: Neo-Babylonian Manumission Documents with Oblation and Service Obligation Book Chapter
In: Kozuh, Michael; Henkelman, Wouter F. M.; Jones, Charles E.; Woods, Christopher (Ed.): Extraction and Control: Studies in Honor of Matthew W. Stolper, pp. 337-346, 2014.
Tags: ancient history, babylonia, dependency, service
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