A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850 /

A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850 /

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Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Description:viii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:The California world history library
California world history library.
Subject:
Labor mobility -- History.
Imperialism -- Economic aspects.
Capitalism -- History.
Capitalism.
Imperialism -- Economic aspects.
Labor mobility.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11922280
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Other authors / contributors:Rediker, Marcus, editor.
Chakraborty, Titas, 1983- editor.
Rossum, Matthias van, 1984- editor.
ISBN:9780520304352
0520304357
9780520304369
0520304365
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds--slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors--repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order--from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Online version: Global history of runaways Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520973060

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