Empires of Labor: Coercion and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Stanziani, Alessandro

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009608592 ISBN 13 : 9781009608596

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the author of Earth Capital: The Long History of Capitalism and Its Aftermath.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009608592
• ISBN 13: 9781009608596
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie