Empires of Labor

Coercion and the Making of the Modern World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvAlessandro Stanziani,Paris) Stanziani, Alessandro (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

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From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of aristocratic capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-18
Mått157 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt693 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009608596

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Introduction; Part I. Labor Rules and Colonization: 1. The Russian way: peasants, landowners and the empire; 2. The British empire: coercion in the name of freedom; 3. The French touch: protecting men in urban industry, excluding rural people, women and colonies; Part II. The Economics of Bondage: 4. The Russian empire and the economic dynamics of serfdom; 5. Labor and the British Industrial Revolution; 6. International trade, slavery and the industrial revolution; 7. With or without you. France and the empire of sugar; Part III. Labor Empires Under Attack. From Abolition to the Great Transformation, 1840–1918: 8. Who is the true slave?; 9. The aristocratic abolition of serfdom in Russia; 10. Abolition in the United States and the great transformation; 11 Neo-colonialism in the age of the welfare state; General conclusion and extrapolations.

'In a tour de force of four centuries of labor history across the British, French and Russian empires, Alessandro Stanziani develops a new view of the central role of coercion in the development of global capitalism. A fine-grained analysis deeply rooted in extensive archival research, he shows how serfdom, slavery, indenture and other forms of unfree labor structured the capitalist revolution deep into the nineteenth century. A book that effectively questions many cherished notions about the rise of the world we live in; required reading for anyone trying to come to terms with modern history.' Sven Beckert, author of Capitalism: A Global History