Empires of Labor(English, Hardcover, Stanziani Alessandro)

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Empires of Labor(English, Hardcover, Stanziani Alessandro) is written by Stanziani Alessandro and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009608592 (ISBN 10) and 9781009608596 (ISBN 13).

From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of aristocratic capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.