Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman. -- Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis. -- Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher. -- After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin. -- From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink. -- Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld. -- Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger. -- "We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley. -- Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody. -- Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope.
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