Terms of labor
Subtitle: slavery, serfdom, and free labor
By: edited by Stanley L. Engerman.
Contributors: Engerman, Stanley L.
Series: The making of modern freedom
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Slavery -- History -- Congresses; Labor -- History -- Congresses; Contract labor -- History -- Congresses; Labor movement -- History -- Congresses; Civil rights -- History -- Congresses; Liberty -- History -- Congresses
Description: For long periods, much of the world's labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only the terms of labor, but also the more general issues of political freedom.

The nine chapters in this volume deal with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and point to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-338) and index.