Bondage : Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions re...

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