Bondage: labor and rights in Eurasia from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries

Abstract

Table of contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BONDAGE IMAGINED Chapter 1. Second Serfdom and Wage-Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia PART II: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BONDAGE. SLAVES AND SERFS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND RUSSIA Chapter 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 4. The Institutions of Serfdom Chapter 5. Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates PART III: OLD BONDAGE, NEW PRACTICES. A COMPARATIVE VIEW. RUSSIA, EUROPE, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLDS Chapter 6. The Persistent Servant: Labor, Rules, and Social Hierarchies in France and Britain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Chapter 7. Bondage across the Ocean. Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean General Conclusion: The Collapse and Resurgence of Bondage Bibliography Index