| Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850) Contributor(s): Brandon, Pepijn (Editor), Frykman, Niklas (Editor), Røge, Pernille (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1108708560 ISBN-13: 9781108708562 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $33.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History |
| Series: International Review of Social History Supplements |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.2" W x 8" (0.80 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured servants, convicts, and slaves. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century the labor of these 'motley crews' made port cities crucial hubs of the emerging capitalist world market and centers of imperial infrastructure. The nine chapters in this volume investigate the interaction between different groups of laborers around the docks and the neighborhoods that stretched behind them. How did the mixture of many different groups of laborers shape patterns of work and life, authority and control, exclusion and inclusion, group-competition and joint resistance? What roles did gender, race and status play in maintaining divisions or enabling solidarities? Together, the nine case studies present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class cultures in port cities. |