| A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600-1850 Volume 28 Contributor(s): Rediker, Marcus (Editor), Chakraborty, Titas (Editor), Van Rossum, Matthias (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520304365 ISBN-13: 9780520304369 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Capitalism |
| Dewey: 331.129 |
| LCCN: 2018061420 |
| Series: California World History Library |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |