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"This new study provides an up-to-date survey of social and economic developments in early modern Eastern European rural societies. Markus Cerman revises the traditional images of mighty lords and poor, powerless 'serf peasants', discussing the theories which led to the assumption that serfdom existed throughout the region. Cerman contrasts the interpretation of a long-term backwardness with a fresh view of the legal, social and economic status of villagers, their living standards and their role in actively shaping rural communities. Featuring helpful tables, a glossary and a comprehensive bibliography, this is a stimulating reassessment for anyone studying this period and often neglected topic in European history."--Publisher's website.

Serfdom --- Europe, Eastern --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Civilization. --- Servitude --- Forced labor --- Land tenure --- Slavery --- Villeinage --- Law and legislation

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Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.

Peonage --- Labor policy --- Working poor --- Capitalism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Poor --- Working class --- Labor --- State and labor --- Economic policy --- Bonded labor --- Debt, Servitude for --- Debt bondage --- Debt slavery --- Servitude --- Servitude for debt --- Contract labor --- Forced labor --- History. --- Employment --- Government policy

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Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous 'coolie trade' - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration movements in global history. Indentured contract workers are perhaps the most revealing example of bonded labour in the grey area between the poles of chattel slavery and 'free' wage labour. This interdisciplinary volume addresses historically and regionally specific cases of bonded labour relations from the 18th century to sponsorship systems in the Arab Gulf States today. »Dies ist ein wichtiges Buch, nicht nur für Migrationsforscher und Wirtschaftshistoriker, sondern für alle, die sich mit ökonomischen, sozialen und politischen Zusammenhängen im Kontext einer aktuellen Kapitalismusforschung auseinandersetzen. Das Buch wird nachdrücklich empfohlen.« Hermann Mückler, Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 147 (2017)

E-books --- Peonage --- Forced labor --- Slave labor --- Labor contract --- Labor policy --- Indentured servants --- History --- Forced labor. --- Compulsory labor --- Conscript labor --- Labor, Compulsory --- Labor, Forced --- Employees --- Colonialism. --- Culture. --- Ethnology. --- Global History. --- Globalization. --- History of Colonialism. --- History. --- Migration. --- Postcolonialism. --- Social History. --- Work. --- Labour; Colonialism; Migration; History; Culture; Globalization; Postcolonialism; Work; Global History; History of Colonialism; Social History; Ethnology --- Bonded labor --- Debt, Servitude for --- Debt bondage --- Debt slavery --- Servitude --- Servitude for debt --- Contract labor

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Serfdom --- -34 <09> --- Servitude --- Forced labor --- Land tenure --- Slavery --- Villeinage --- History --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- Law and legislation --- History. --- 34 <09> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen) --- 34 <09> --- Germany

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Slavery --- Esclavage --- -Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- -Slavery --- Slavery - Greece