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Labor on the fringes of empire : voice, exit and the law / Alessandro Stanziani

Stanziani, Alessandro,i1961- [Verfasser]

Softcover re-print of the Hardcover 1st edition 2018

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

xiii, 334 Seiten ; 22 cm

Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies

Literaturangaben

Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Stanziani, Alessandro, 1961. Labor on the Fringes of Empire. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - Online-Ressource (XIII, 334 p. 7 illus, online resource). - ISBN 978-3-319-70392-3

978-3-319-70391-6 ; 978-3-319-88930-6 ; 978-3-319-70392-3

LB 50465 LB 50595 NQ 9300 NW 8295

 

Afrika  Indischer Ozean, Region  Assam  Maskarenen  Republik Kongo  Abschaffung  Sklaverei  Abolitionismus  Ausbeutung  Arbeit  Kolonialismus  Asien  Arbeitsmarkt 

 

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland. Arguing for a multi-centered view of imperial dynamics, Labor on the Fringes of Empire is a pioneering global history of nineteenth-century labor