2024
Batista, Anamarija
Word and Image in Communication: ‘Translation Loop’ as a Means of Historiographical Research Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: art, historiography, methodology
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Magagnoli, Paolo
To Put a Human Face on the Question of Labour: Photographic Portraiture and the Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, art, australia, intendured labour, photography
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Petrova, Ivanka
Obligatory Contributions to Society: Student Foreign Language Guides as Seasonal Wage Workers in Socialist Bulgaria, 1970s–1980s Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, bulgaria, seasonal work, socialism, wage labour
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Pizzolato, Nico
Constructing Debt: Discursive and Material Strategies of Labour Coercion in the US South, 1903–1964 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, debt, united states, wage labour
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de Souza, Marjorie Carvalho
Negotiating the Terms of Wage(less) Labour: Free and Freed Workers as Contractual Parties in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, brazil, latin america, wage labour
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Kuhn, Eva
Border Plants: Globalisation as Shown to us by the Women Living at its Leading Edge Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: contemporary, globalisation
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Hasan, Mohammad Tareq
The Dilemma of Being a ‘Good Worker’: Cultural Discourse, Coercion and Resistance in Bangladesh’s Garment Factories Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: asia, bangladesh, contemporary, textile industry
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Özbek, Müge Telci
Entangled Dependencies: The Case of the Runaway Domestic Worker Emine in Late Ottoman Istanbul, 1910 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, domestic service, gender, ottoman empire, wage labour
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Marcon, Gabriele
‘One gets rich, one hundred more work for nothing’: German miners in Medici Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, italy, mining, wage labour
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Arnaud, Colin
Subdued Wage Workers: Textile Production in Western and Islamic sources (Ninth to Twelfth centuries) Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: europe, islamic world, medieval history, textile industry, wage labour
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Őze, Eszter
Exploitation and Care: Public Health Aspirations and the Construction of the Working-Class Body in the Budapest Museum of Social Health, 1901–1945 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, europe, history of the body, hungary, public health, working class
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Milićević, Nataša; Škodrić, Ljubinka
Working for the Enemy: Civil Servants in Occupied Serbia, 1941–1944 Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, civ, serbia, wage labour
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Wadauer, Sigrid
Contracts under Duress: Work Documents as a Matter and Means of Conflict in the Habsburg Monarchy/ Austria in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, 20th century, austria, europe, habsburg empire, wage labour, work contracts
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Sefer, Akın
In the Name of Order: (Im)mobilising Wage Labour for the Ottoman Naval Industry in the Nineteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: 19th century, ottoman empire, wage labour
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Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna
Coercion and Wage Labour in History and Art Book Chapter
In: Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.): Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art, 2024.
Tags: art, wage labour
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Batista, Anamarija; Müller, Viola; Peres, Corinna (Ed.)
Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring Work Relations through History and Art Collection
2024.
Abstract | Tags: art, wage labour
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abstract = {Coercion and Wage Labour presents novel histories of people who experienced physical, social, political or cultural compulsion in the course of paid work. Broad in scope, the chapters examine diverse areas of work including textile production, war industries, civil service and domestic labour, in contexts from the Middle Ages to the present day. They demonstrate that wages have consistently shaped working people’s experiences, and failed to protect workers from coercion. Instead, wages emerge as versatile tools to bind, control, and exploit workers. Remuneration mirrors the distribution of power in labour relations, often separating employers physically and emotionally from their employees, and disguising coercion.
The book makes historical narratives accessible for interdisciplinary audiences. Most chapters are preceded by illustrations by artists invited to visually conceptualise the book’s key messages and to emphasise the presence of the body and landscape in the realm of work. In turn, the chapter texts reflect back on the artworks, creating an intense intermedial dialogue that offers mutually relational ‘translations’ and narrations of labour coercion. Other contributions written by art scholars discuss how coercion in remunerated labour is constructed and reflected in artistic practice. The collection serves as an innovative and creative tool for teaching, and raises awareness that narrating history is always contingent on the medium chosen and its inherent constraints and possibilities.},
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The book makes historical narratives accessible for interdisciplinary audiences. Most chapters are preceded by illustrations by artists invited to visually conceptualise the book’s key messages and to emphasise the presence of the body and landscape in the realm of work. In turn, the chapter texts reflect back on the artworks, creating an intense intermedial dialogue that offers mutually relational ‘translations’ and narrations of labour coercion. Other contributions written by art scholars discuss how coercion in remunerated labour is constructed and reflected in artistic practice. The collection serves as an innovative and creative tool for teaching, and raises awareness that narrating history is always contingent on the medium chosen and its inherent constraints and possibilities.
2023
Livi, Massimiliano
“I certainly wouldn’t call it work anymore”. The Reconfiguration of Work in Italy during the 1970s from a Historical Semantics Perspective Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 175-198, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, historical semantics, italy
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title = {“I certainly wouldn’t call it work anymore”. The Reconfiguration of Work in Italy during the 1970s from a Historical Semantics Perspective },
author = {Massimiliano Livi },
year = {2023},
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issuetitle = {Work Semantics / Semantiken der Arbeit},
journal = {Austrian Journal of Historical Studies},
volume = {34},
issue = {2},
pages = {175-198},
abstract = {Using an onomasiological, document-centred historical semantic approach, this paper focuses on the reconfiguration of labour in Italian society during the 1970s and 1980s. This is analysed both at the level of discourse and at the level of the performative changes that the development of a new semantics of labour, coercion, and freedom entailed. At the end of the 1970s, with the onset of the post-boom crisis, the rejection of regulated labour and the theorisation of its liberation through precarisation and flexibilisation became part of a cultural and social semantics for the young generation of workers entering the wage labour system. Their motto was “freeing labour to free life from labour”. Through both a quantitative and qualitative historical semantic analysis of the sources, this contribution examines the medium- and long-term impacts of this reconfiguration on the practices of regulated and controlled wage labour. It also aims to offer an initial reflection on the use of the historical semantic approach for contemporary history and its possible – or rather, necessary – differentiation from other forms of discourse analysis.},
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Köstlbauer, Josef
Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 150-174, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, germany, historical semantics, slavery
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year = {2023},
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abstract = {This contribution uses a set of documents dealing with the case of a fugitive slave named Samuel Johannes in Upper Lusatia in 1754 to demonstrate the merits of a historical semantics–inspired approach. Not only does the studied case present evidence of the extension of colonial slaveries into the Holy Roman Empire, it also provides a snapshot of the language of subservience spoken in mid-eighteenth-century Germany. By revealing a striking indifference towards defining and explaining ategorisations of dependency, the sources analysed here defy simple juxtapositions like ‘enslaved’ versus ‘free’. Labels like ‘slave’, ‘serf ’, or ‘Moor’ were employed to enforce and legitimise authority and proprietorial claims over Samuel Johannes. But these labels had to be constantly translated into actual practices and filled with meaning, as they did not readily convert into established, closely circumscribed positions or categories of status.},
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Peres, Corinna
Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters: Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 126-149, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: europe, gender, historical semantics, italy, medieval history, service, slavery
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title = {Female Work Arrangements in the Datini Letters: Exploring the Semantic Roles and Negotiating Scopes of Servants, Slaves, and Wet Nurses },
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year = {2023},
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issuetitle = {Work Semantics / Semantiken der Arbeit},
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abstract = {In the letters preserved in the Datini archive, women could take the epistolary stage when it came to their (pre-)entry into a labour relation with the Datinis or their social network. The negotiating scope of women during these entries is the analytical focus of this paper; to negotiate and/or to be negotiated is the central question. Based on 53 letters from the years 1393–1398, four different search and recruitment processes for three different types of female workers – servants, slaves, and wet nurses – are comparatively examined by way of a historical semantic reading. Taking the verb-oriented method as a starting point, this study proposes two methodological extensions: an attribute-oriented method and an adaption of the semantic roles approach from linguistics. The paper argues that this historical semantic trio of methods can help to understand group-related and individual degrees of (non-)control over actions in the arrangement of labour relations in late medieval Tuscany by bringing positions of power to the epistolary surface.},
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Almagro-Vidal, Clara
Grammars of Dependence. A Historical Semantics Approach to Population Charters Granted by Military Orders to Muslims in Medieval Iberia Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 106-125, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: historical semantics, iberia, medieval history, military, muslims, spain
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title = { Grammars of Dependence. A Historical Semantics Approach to Population Charters Granted by Military Orders to Muslims in Medieval Iberia },
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abstract = {The aim of this paper is to analyse written records associated with the establishment of bonds between military orders as territorial lords and Muslims as settlers in the Christian kingdoms of medieval Iberia. These records are usually known as cartas de población or population charters and were issued in the context of the settlement of populations in a given area. Methods derived from historical semantics are applied to these texts, and the analysis explores the ways in which the existing asymmetrical power relationships were reflected not only in the contents of the charters but also in the grammar and expressions used to formulate them.},
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Arnaurd, Colin
Trapped Maidens and Mocked Weavers. Semantics of Ambiguity Between Remunerated and Coerced Labour in Twelfth-Century Textile Production Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 80-105, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: historical semantics, medieval history, textile industry, western europe
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abstract = {In Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, a French Arthurian romance written by Chrétien de Troyes around 1180, the protagonist finds three hundred captive maidens forced to work on silk fabrics in a cursed castle and complaining about their insufficient remuneration. According to the Gesta Abbatum Trudoniensum, a twelfth-century chronicle of the Abbey of Sint-Truiden (Limburg, Flanders), hired weavers were forced by domanial officers – most probably their employers – to pull a false ship from Kornelimünster near Aachen to Sint-Truiden in 1133. In this article, the two mentioned texts are examined using semantic methods to understand the logics behind the combination of coercion and remuneration in textile labour. The action phrases are analysed, as are the lexical fields of poverty and freedom. The weavers in the Gesta Abbatum Trudoniensum seemed to have the status of hired servants (mercennarius), which implied temporary servitude for the duration of a contract. In Yvain, the insufficient wage of the weaving maidens is presented as chicanery employed to force them to work more. In both texts, poverty is conceptualised in a social, economic, legal, and political sense at once.},
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Karev, Ella
Nemeh in Pharaonic Egypt: ‘Free’ or ‘Miserable’? A Case Study of Historical Semantics Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 62-79, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: ancient history, dependency, egypt, historical semantics
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abstract = {This case study of historical semantics examines an ancient Egyptian term related to dependency and dependent labour, ‘nemeh’, along with its varied (and seemingly paradoxical) proposed translations, ranging from ‘orphan’ to ‘citizen’, from ‘deprived person’ to ‘free man’. This contribution considers nemeh through historical semantics, investigating the shared thematic background among concepts and lexical meanings which appear contradictory to modern historians and philologists – but were not so in their original social context.},
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Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Schiel, Juliane
Über die Mikrosemantik von Einzeldokumenten. Ludolf Kuchenbuch im Gespräch mit Juliane Schiel Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 48-61, 2023.
Tags: historical semantics, medieval history, methodology
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Geelhaar, Tim; Kuchenbuch, Ludolf; Perreaux, Nicolas; Schiel, Juliane; Schürch, Isabelle
Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 18-47, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, historical semantics, medieval history, methodology
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title = {Historical Semantics – A Vade Mecum },
author = {Tim Geelhaar and Ludolf Kuchenbuch and Nicolas Perreaux and Juliane Schiel and Isabelle Schürch },
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abstract = {This paper presents the historical semantics approach as a method for social history. While usually understood either as a form of conceptual and intellectual history of ideas or as a subdiscipline of philology and digital humanities, the authors of this article use historical semantics to address the way historians read their sources. The approach is presented as a necessary extension of historical methodology: Historians need to distrust their own common sense, depart from presupposed analytical categories and concepts, and base their interpretative work on the emic vocabulary of the societies under examination and on the document(s) forming the material legacy of the past. By linking words to historical and potential situations of language use, the historical semantics approach reveals the social taxonomies and inherent power relations between the dominant and the dominated. The paper outlines the guiding principles and methodological implications of this approach before presenting four concise vignettes illustrating the analytical potential and methodological diversity of the approach based on concrete case studies.},
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Schiel, Juliane; Chevaleyre, Claude
Work Semantics. In Search of an Alternative Conceptual Matrix for Labour and Social Historians Journal Article
In: Austrian Journal of Historical Studies, vol. 34, iss. 2, pp. 9-17, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, historical semantics, historiography, methodology
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abstract = {The idea for the project presented in this volume began with an encounter and a discovery. When we – a medievalist and a sinologist – first met in autumn 2017, we realised that although we came from different disciplines and worked on different regions and time periods, we were struggling with the same problem: As historians working on slaving practices in the Venetian empire (14th–16th centuries) respectively servitude in late imperial China (15th–19th centuries), we were both spending much of our time explaining the contextual differences and similarities between the social configurations we were studying to the broader community of social, labour, and global historians. We both felt that our objects of study did not fit well within the much-debated subfield of “free and unfree labour”, and that the postcolonial critiques and the so-called global turn in history did not solve the conceptual problem we were facing. Integrating a medieval or Chinese case study into a conference panel or a special journal issue on household service or slavery helped to enlarge the horizon of the historiographical debates on the history of unfree labour relations, but the umbrella terms of these subfields of study and the limited conceptual references
available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.},
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available did little to help us understand and properly convey the social taxonomies shaping the power relations we were studying.
Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.)
Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities Collection
De Gruyter, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: global labour history, longue duree, migration and mobility
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Tammisto, Peeter
Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 615-634, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: baltic states, early modern history, estonia, runaways, serfdom
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title = {Runaway Serfs in 17th-Century Estland and Livland},
author = {Peeter Tammisto},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-09-12},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {615-634},
abstract = {Adscripti glebae is a condition where peasants legally belong to a particular landholding. Its purpose was to maintain a stable labour force at the disposal of the landholder. Peasants who did not abide by this immobility requirement were termed runaways. Runaways have been episodically mentioned in medieval and early modern social history, particularly in demographic history, urban history, and histories of serfdom. Yet they have rarely been the central focus of historical studies. This paper examines the runaway on the background of the particular conditions of serfdom in the provinces of Estland and Livland. The paper describes how serfdom was practiced in these provinces, proceeds to peasant agency by considering the numerous diverse reasons for running away and outlines the reasoning behind the efforts of both nobility and government aimed at maintaining the status quo. The court records of a few extradition cases are highlighted to illustrate aspects of the issue of keeping serfs bound to the land.},
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Østhus, Hanne
The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 635-655, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, norway, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {The Case of Adam Jacobsen. Enslavement in 18th-Century Norway},
author = {Hanne Østhus},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-07-11},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {635-655},
abstract = {The article explores the life of Adam Jacobsen, an enslaved man who was trafficked from the Danish West Indies to the small town of Arendal in southern Norway sometime around 1780. By using the micro-spatial perspective the article aims to investigate how Jacobsen and others who were trafficked from America, Africa and Asia to Europe were understood within the broader processes of marketization and racialization that occurred with the development of the Atlantic slave trade. The article examines how these processes were given a localized expression through investigations of different ‘sites’: the geographical places of St. Croix and, primarily, Arendal, and the institutional sites of the household and the interrogation room. In St. Croix, Jacobsen lived in a society constructed around plantation slavery. In Arendal, he was a working member of his owner’s household residing with local servants and a local family, but he was also singled out and often racialized. Jacobsen’s life story, then, demonstrates how colonial slavery extended into Europe in a way that not only concerned capital and goods but also trafficking of people.},
keywords = {early modern history, norway, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Valentin, Emilie Luther
How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 679-698, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, denmar, early modern history, emotional labour, europe, punishment, scandinavia
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title = {How to Be(come) the Perfect Inmate? Working the System in the Prison Workhouse at Christianshavn, 1769–1789},
author = {Emilie Luther Valentin},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-07-04},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {679-698},
abstract = {Between 1769 and 1789, the warden of the prison workhouse at Christianshavn wrote around 300 statements to accompany petitions made for inmates’ release. Drawing on the theories of Arlie Russell Hochschild, this article argues that the statements detail the feeling rules of the prison workhouse and provide evidence that the inmates ‘worked the system’ by performing emotional labour in accordance with said feeling rules. Thus, the article uncovers and connects practices and tactics of coercion and autonomy in the prison workhouse, examining how inmates navigated the authorities’ expectations as a tactic of escape from imprisonment and labour coercion.},
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Heinsen, Johan
Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 656-678 , 2023.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, punishment, scandinavia
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title = {Carceral Chains: Pathways through a Convict Labour Institution, 1690–1830},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-18},
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volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {656-678 },
abstract = {This article examines early modern convicts’ experiences of extramural penal labour institutions – known in their time as slaveries. It centres on Denmark’s main slaveries in Copenhagen and analyses data collected from the books keeping track of the inmates. On this basis, the article examines their experiences at connected moments: before entry, at entry, in the extraction of labour, and at exit. The article describes how these moments linked together to form patterns. Crucially, experiences during and at the termination of stays in these prisons were often predicated on former experiences in the labour market, how punitive labour was linked to forms of corporal violence, and the question of honour.},
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Pargas, Damian Alan; Schiel, Juliane (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History Book
2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery
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title = { The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History },
editor = {Damian Alan Pargas and Juliane Schiel},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-15},
abstract = {This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery – why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based relationships, whilst simultaneously dividing societies by class, race, ethnicity and cultural group. Uncovering slavery as a globalising phenomenon, the authors highlight the slave-trading routes that crisscrossed Africa, helped integrate the Mediterranean world, connected Indian Ocean societies and fused the Atlantic world. Split into five parts, the handbook portrays the evolution of slavery from antiquity to the contemporary era and encourages readers to realise similarities and differences between various manifestations of slavery throughout history. Providing a truly global coverage of slavery, and including thematic injections within each chronological part, this handbook is a comprehensive and transnational resource for all researchers interested in slavery, the history of labour, and anthropology.},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, abolition, ancient history, contemporary, early modern history, global labour history, longue duree, medieval history, slavery},
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Heinsen, Johan; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Østhus, Hanne
Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 551-571, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, europe, scandinavia
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title = {Labour and Coercion in the Nordic Region in the Early Modern Period: Connections, Ambiguities, Practices},
author = {Johan Heinsen and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson and Hanne Østhus},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-06-07},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {551-571},
abstract = {This introduction discusses the constitutive role played by various practices of coercion within a range of labour relations across the Nordic region in the early modern period. In recent years a growing body of international literature has worked to re-conceptualize histories of labour coercion. Current trends in global labour history have emphasized the interrelational nature of labour regimes, eschewing traditional boundaries of free and unfree labour, productive and unproductive labour, wage labour and unpaid labour, and focused rather on the entangled history of labour and coercion in its various guises. Based on a critical discussion of the teleological frameworks and essentialized analytical categories that have largely characterized the historiography of labour in many of the Nordic countries, we argue for shifting the focus of attention to study the actual practices of labour and coercion in order to establish a more inclusive, contextual and historicized historiography of Nordic labour.},
keywords = {early modern history, europe, scandinavia},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Lambrecht, Thjis; Whittle, Jane (Ed.)
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe: The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850 Collection
2023.
Abstract | Tags: agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-05-01},
urldate = {2023-05-01},
abstract = {Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was 'free' after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are increasingly being questioned and labour laws have been identified as creating significant restrictions on workers' freedom. This collection is the first book to look at labour laws across Western Europe from a longer-term perspective. It is interdisciplinary in nature bringing together studies in social, political, economic and legal history.
Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.},
keywords = {agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, labour markets, longue duree, medieval history, service, wage labour, western europe, work contracts, working conditions, working time},
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Elements of labour legislation appeared before the Black Death, but were strengthened afterwards particularly in places and periods where labour became scarce. The collection focuses on the rural economy in the late medieval and early modern period. It provides a series of studies which introduce a range of approaches to labour regulation and the very idea of labour across Europe. Uniquely, the collection offers observations on the impact of labour laws on everyday social relations. Attempts to regulate work and labour varied widely: in places they amounted to wishful thinking on the part of the regional authorities, whereas elsewhere they could impose severe limitations on individual freedoms.
Uppenberg, Carolina
Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, europe, gender, household, scandinavia, service, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {Contracted Coercion: Land, Labour and Gender in the Swedish Crofter Institution},
author = {Carolina Uppenberg},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-30},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
abstract = {In the early modern rural setting, labour was organized with varying degrees of coercion depending on landowning, social standing, and gender. This article analyses the crofter institution, characterized by corvée labour (obligatory work as payment), from the perspective of gender and coercion. The purpose is to answer the question of how the crofter institution was created, shaped, enabled and questioned. The right to establish a croft made the position as head of household available for men but it also increased social stratification. While crofters were masters of their households in contract signing, their position was ambiguous when it came to the organization of labour. Regarding physical integrity, crofters could be forced by physical violence and were subject to rules not connected to work, such as subservience. I argue that this was made acceptable through marriage and allowing the position as head of household to landless men. Crofters held an intermediate position, caught between the market logic of leasehold of land and the coercive logic of labour extraction, and this continued to colour the crofter institution until its final dissolution in 1943.},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, early modern history, europe, gender, household, scandinavia, service, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Contested Households: Lodgers, Labour, and the Law in Rural Iceland in the Early 19th Century Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 48, iss. 5, pp. 572-592, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, agrarian labour and rural history, europe, household, iceland, labour law, scandinavia, service
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title = {Contested Households: Lodgers, Labour, and the Law in Rural Iceland in the Early 19th Century},
author = {Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-05},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {48},
issue = {5},
pages = {572-592},
abstract = {The historiography of labour in pre-industrial Iceland has commonly portrayed it first and foremost as life-cycle service in rural households and has suggested that, in a European context, the Icelandic system of compulsory service – or vistarband – was exceptionally harsh due to its broad scope and inflexibility. This approach has been built primarily on demographics and a normative analysis of legal sources. Less attention has been paid to the everyday practices of workers and their employers (or the state) as they manoeuvred within and around the labour legislation to establish working relationships to make ends meet. Similarly, ambiguities within the legislation and discrepancies between law and practice have rarely been explored, nor has people’s understanding of the principal concepts of the labour laws, concepts such as ‘household’, ‘farm’ and ‘servant’, been scrutinized. This article invokes such questions and provides a microhistorical analysis of two court cases which illustrate the nuances and ambiguities of putting such a broad-reaching set of regulations into practice in a pre-industrial rural setting.},
keywords = {19th century, agrarian labour and rural history, europe, household, iceland, labour law, scandinavia, service},
pubstate = {published},
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}
Nail, Thomas
Afterword: Coercion and Historical Patterns of Motion Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: migration and mobility
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Kussy, Angela
From Peasants in Romania to the Global Care Class in Spain, 1949–2019 Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 20th century, care, contemporary, gender, romania, spain
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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Bernardi, Claudia
Empalmado y Contratado: The Valorisation and Coexistence of Labour Mobility and Immobilisation in the Experience of Mexican ‘Braceros’, 1940s–1960s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 20th century, braceros, mexico, migration and mobility, united states
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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Rahi-Tamm, Aigi
Lives between Forced Labour Measures: The Case of Kulaks Deported from Estonia, 1940‒1960 Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: baltic states, deportation, estonia, europe, forced labour, migration and mobility
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editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
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Özbek, Müge Telci
Keeping Domestic Workers Dependent in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 20th century, dependency, domestic service, migration and mobility, turkey
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm; Gunnlaugsson, Emil
Passports, Permits, and Labour Im/Mobility in Iceland, 1780s‒1860s Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, europe, iceland, labour law, migration and mobility, scandinavia
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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Ressel, Magnus
Accounting Practices and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Business Prospectus of an Eighteenth-Century European Slave Trader Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: atlantic, business history, early modern history, slavery
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author = {Magnus Ressel},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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Heinsen, Johan
Escape and Reform in the Early-Modern Danish Prison System Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: convict labour, denmark, early modern history, europe, migration and mobility, punishment, runaways, scandinavia
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
urldate = {2023-01-01},
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Marcon, Gabriele
Inveigled or Invited? The Migration of German Miners to the Medici Mines in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: early modern history, europe, italy, migration and mobility, mining
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author = {Gabriele Marcon},
editor = {Claudia Bernardi and Viola Müller and Biljana Stojić and Vilhelm Vilhelmsson},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
booktitle = {Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities},
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Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm
Introduction: Moving Workers in History Book Chapter
In: Bernardi, Claudia; Müller, Viola; Stojić, Biljana; Vilhelmsson, Vilhelm (Ed.): Moving Workers: Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities, 2023.
Tags: global labour history, migration and mobility
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year = {2023},
date = {2023-01-01},
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2022
Batista, Anamarija
Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus Book Chapter Forthcoming
In: Viderman, Tihomir (Ed.): Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations , Forthcoming.
Abstract | Tags: architecture, contemporary, socialism, yugoslavia
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title = {Referenzierung der jugoslawischen Architektur in zeitgenössischen Praxen und ihre Bedeutung für die Verhandlung des Phänomens Luxus},
author = {Anamarija Batista},
editor = {Tihomir Viderman et al.},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-10-04},
booktitle = {Unsettled – Urban routines, temporalities and contestations
},
abstract = {This text scrutinizes the concept of luxury in the context of self-governing socialism as the subject matter of particular importance in challenging and unsettling contemporary thought, thus making it transgressive.
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pubstate = {forthcoming},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Grubački, Isidora
Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia Book Chapter
In: Betti, Eloisa; Papastefanaki, Leda; Tolomelli, Marica; Zimmermann, Susan (Ed.): Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, feminism, gender, labour movements, socialism, yugoslavia
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title = {Women Activists’ Relation to Peasant Women’s Work in the 1930s Yugoslavia},
author = {Isidora Grubački},
editor = {Eloisa Betti and Leda Papastefanaki and Marica Tolomelli and Susan Zimmermann},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-09-01},
urldate = {2022-09-01},
booktitle = {Women, Work and Agency. Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century},
abstract = {The chapter explores the relationship between women's activism and peasant women in interwar Yugoslavia, arguing that peasant women's work was the main focus of feminist activists who proposed different changes in peasant women's lives. By exploring the asymmetrical relationship between educated activist women and mostly uneducated peasant women, the chapter further addresses the question of the character of feminist activism in a predominantly agrarian country in Southeastern Europe.},
keywords = {20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, central and eastern europe, feminism, gender, labour movements, socialism, yugoslavia},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code Journal Article
In: Slavery & Abolition, vol. 43, iss. 3, pp. 460-481 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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title = {Insiders by Analogy: Slaves in the Great Ming Code},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Slavery & Abolition},
volume = {43},
issue = {3},
pages = {460-481 },
abstract = {This article seeks to reinforce arguments that a genuinely global history of slavery is possible only if we examine the nature and dynamics of chattel and bonded status in parts of the world that have been largely ignored in slavery studies. Although scholars have begun to reassess the dynamics of slavery in early-modern Asia, a comprehensive study of slaving practices in China remains to be written. A careful examination of the provisions on ‘slaves’ (nubi) included in the Great Ming Code (1397) provides an opportunity to better understand slave status in Ming (1368–1644) China. Despite their limits, the norms and concepts subsumed in the legislation can tell us a great deal about the relative nature of social status and changes in slave status through time. This article seeks to explain how and why slaves were conceptualized as such in the late imperial period. It distinguishes between two categories of social interaction (that which slaves had with society and that which they had with their master’s family) and dissects the analogy between slaves and children in these interactions. It argues that the features that historians usually regard as distinctive of nubi slavery cannot be properly understood without adequate contextualization.
},
keywords = {china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers Journal Article
In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies , vol. 81, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-65 , 2022.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Domestic Law and Slavery in Late Imperial China. Glimpses from Lineage Registers},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
issuetitle = {Slavery in Early Modern East, Inner, and Southeast Asia},
journal = {Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies },
volume = {81},
issue = {1-2},
pages = {39-65 },
abstract = {Over the past century, the late imperial Chinese nubi system has been the subject of numerous studies. Depicted as a highly exploitative mode of labor coercion, it has nonetheless been radically differentiated from slavery. In this article, I explore how nubi were conceptualized in late imperial China through the lens of lineages’ domestic regulations and admonitions. Nubi bondage was first and foremost a living experience of strong asymmetric dependency. However, as a de jure institution, its conceptual and normative dimensions do matter as they justified the enslavement of human beings and contributed to shaping household practices. Domestic regulations reveal a process that transformed outsiders into absolute inferiors. This consideration alone is an incentive to reconsider the alleged disqualification of nubi as a form of “slavery” and to engage broader comparisons with slavery in a more global perspective.
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keywords = {bonded labour, china, dependency, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slavery in Early-Modern Asia Book Chapter
In: Kate Ekama,; Hellman, Lisa; van Rossum, Matthias (Ed.): In Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850, 2022.
Tags: china, early modern history, global labour history, slavery
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year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
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Müller, Viola
Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South Book
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity
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title = {Escape to the City. Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South},
author = {Viola Müller},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
abstract = {Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.
},
keywords = {19th century, migration and mobility, race, runaways, slavery, united states, urbanity},
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tppubtype = {book}
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Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, M. Erdem (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Collection
2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, nation state, ottoman empire, turkey
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title = {Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940},
editor = {Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
series = {International Studies in Social History},
abstract = {As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental,
and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
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and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
Müller, Viola
“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 153-176, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, punishment, runaways, slavery, united states
@article{nokey,
title = {“Employed at the Works of the City”. The Punishment of Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum US South},
author = {Viola Müller},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
issuetitle = {Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {7},
issue = {1-2},
pages = {153-176},
abstract = {Despite the successful maneuvers of many runaways to escape slavery in the slaveholding South, considerable numbers did not make it and were apprehended by slave patrols, civilians, or watchmen. What happened to those among them who were subsequently not reclaimed by their legal owners? To answer this question, this paper focuses on the punishment and forced employment of runaway slaves by city and state authorities rather than by individual slaveholders. It follows enslaved southerners into workhouses, chain gains, and penitentiaries, thereby connecting different institutions within the nineteenth-century penal system. Exploring collaboration and clashes between slaveholders and the authorities, it will discuss how the forced employment of runaways fitted in with the broader understanding of Black labor and the restructuring of labor demands in the antebellum US South.
},
keywords = {19th century, punishment, runaways, slavery, united states},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Vito, Christian De
Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851 Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 7, iss. 1-2, pp. 48-72, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Paternalist Punishment. Slaves, Masters and the State in the Audiencia de Quito and Ecuador, 1730s–1851},
author = {Christian De Vito},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
issuetitle = {Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {7},
issue = {1-2},
pages = {48-72},
abstract = {This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of “protection.” The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.
},
keywords = {19th century, colonialism, early modern history, latin america, punishment, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Vito, Christian De; Müller, Viola (Ed.)
Punishing the Enslaved: Slavery, Labor, and Punitive Practices in the Americas, 1760s–1880s Collection
2022.
Tags: 19th century, convict labour, latin america, punishment, slavery, united states
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Perreaux, Nicolas
Les lieux de stockage dans les textes diplomatiques (VIIe-XIIIe siècles): Enquête lexicale, sémantique et numérique Book Chapter
In: Schneider, Laurent; Lauwers, Michel (Ed.): Mises en réserve: Production, accumulation et redistribution des céréales dans l‘Occident médiéval et moderne., 2022.
Abstract | Tags: economic development, europe, medieval history, spatial history
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title = {Les lieux de stockage dans les textes diplomatiques (VIIe-XIIIe siècles): Enquête lexicale, sémantique et numérique},
author = {Nicolas Perreaux},
editor = {Laurent Schneider and Michel Lauwers},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {Mises en réserve: Production, accumulation et redistribution des céréales dans l‘Occident médiéval et moderne.},
abstract = {This article studies the evolution of references to grain storage places in the diplomatic texts of medieval Europe. In contrast to archaeology, it shows that these do not appear in the texts until the 11th century, and develop strongly in the 12th-13th centuries. This evolution is therefore not only due to an increase in production and increased pressure on producers, but to a new look at the relations of production, a seigneurialisation of the medieval system, which goes hand in hand with a stronger spatial anchorage.
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keywords = {economic development, europe, medieval history, spatial history},
pubstate = {published},
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Bänziger, Peter-Paul
The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000 Book Chapter
In: Mense, Ursula; Welskopp, Thomas; Zaharieva, Anna (Ed.): In Search of the Global Labor Market, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, economic development, globalisation, labour markets, nation state
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title = {The Co-Production of Labor Markets and Nation States, c. 1850-2000},
author = {Peter-Paul Bänziger},
editor = {Ursula Mense and Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
urldate = {2022-01-01},
booktitle = {In Search of the Global Labor Market},
abstract = {The article argues that labor markets emerged in close relation to a far-reaching societal transformation at the turn of the twentieth century: the largely intertwined consolidations of the nation state and of a new mode of conceptualizing and institutionalizing labour as “work”. Against this background it further argues that labour markets were at most partially denationalized in the course of the past few decades.
},
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pubstate = {published},
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}
Akdemir, Ayşegül
“Put me on to a male agent”: Emotional labour and gender in call centres. Journal Article
In: Current Sociology, Online First, 2022.
Abstract | Tags: emotional labour, gender, qualitative research, sociology, turkey
@article{nokey,
title = {“Put me on to a male agent”: Emotional labour and gender in call centres.},
author = {Ayşegül Akdemir},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-01-01},
journal = {Current Sociology, Online First},
abstract = {This article aims to shed light on the gender dynamics in the context of performing emotional labor in Turkish call centers. Based on qualitative interviews, this study aimed to illuminate how gender is done and undone, providing a perspective on the relationship between gender and emotional labor in call centers, a highly gendered and interactional line of work. Gender relations are complex and gender performativity in call center work allows us to observe different ways in which employees do and undo gender. This study reveals that female employees are more inclined to undo gender and display competence as a work strategy to elevate their position, whereas male employees struggle between job demands and adhering to masculine norms.
},
keywords = {emotional labour, gender, qualitative research, sociology, turkey},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2021
Sarti, Raffaella
From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 67, iss. 1, pp. 65-95, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {From Slaves and Servants to Citizens? Regulating Dependency, Race, and Gender in Revolutionary France and the French West Indies},
author = {Raffaella Sarti},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {67},
issue = {1},
pages = {65-95},
abstract = {A crucial aspect of the regulation of domestic service is the regulation of people's status. Because of its emphasis on freedom and equality, the French Revolution is particularly interesting. “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.” These principles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789) did not seem to leave room for slavery and master/servant hierarchies. Yet, their impact on slaves and servants was ambivalent, as I shall show by focusing on France and its Caribbean colonies. Dependency, race, and gender are crucial in my analysis. After sketching the features of servants, serfs, slaves, and indentured servants at the end of the Ancien Régime, I will analyse how the Revolution affected them, focusing on serfs and servants in metropolitan France, on black colonial slaves, and on female slaves and servants. While I investigate the “French imperial nation-State”, I will also provide some comparison with the American case. The Revolution led to a feminization of dependence both in metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean, making dependence more gendered. It abolished serfdom and slavery, and enfranchised male domestiques. Thus, on the one hand, it was really revolutionary; on the other, colonial slavery was first replaced by bonded labour and then reintroduced. Male domestiques were enfranchised briefly and only on paper; they would be enfranchised when slavery in the French colonies was abolished (1848). Women were excluded: mistresses and maids had to wait until 1944 to become full citizens. This makes it impossible to establish clear-cut distinctions between pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary times, and in part challenges the difference between metropole and colonies.
},
keywords = {abolition, colonialism, dependency, france, gender, race, revolt and revolution, service, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Barker, Hannah
The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 2, pp. 187–217, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: gender, italy, medieval history, slavery
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title = {The Risk of Birth. Life Insurance for Enslaved Pregnant Women in Fifteenth-Century Genoa},
author = {Hannah Barker},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {6},
issue = {2},
pages = {187–217},
abstract = {Why did fifteenth-century Genoese slaveholders insure the lives of enslaved pregnant women? I argue that their assessment of the risks associated with childbirth reflected their views on the connection between slavery, property, and lineage. Genoese slaveholders saw the reproductive labor of enslaved women as a potential contribution to their lineage as well as their property. Because their children by enslaved women might become their heirs, Genoese slaveholders were inclined to worry about and seek protection against the risk of maternal mortality. In the context of the commercial revolution and the rise of third-party insurance, they developed life insurance for enslaved pregnant women to complement the fines already required of those who illegally impregnated enslaved women and thereby endangered their lives.
},
keywords = {gender, italy, medieval history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Heinsen, Johan
Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 6, iss. 3, pp. 343–368, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Penal Slavery in Early Modern Scandinavia},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {6},
issue = {3},
pages = {343–368},
abstract = {In Scandinavia, a penal institution known as “slavery” existed from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Penal slaves laboured in the creation and maintenance of military infrastructure. They were chained and often stigmatized, sometimes by branding. Their punishment was likened and, on a few occasions, linked to Atlantic slavery. Still, in reality, it was a wholly distinct form of enslavement that produced different experiences of coercion than those of the Atlantic. Such forms of penal slavery sit uneasily in historiographies of punishment but also offers a challenge for the dominant models of global labour history and its attempts to create comparative frameworks for coerced labour. This article argues for the need for contextual approaches to what such coercion meant to both coercers and coerced. Therefore, it offers an analysis of the meaning of early modern penal slavery based on an exceptional set of sources from 1723. In these sources, the status of the punished was negotiated and practiced by guards and slaves themselves. Court appearances by slaves were usually brief—typically revolving around escapes as authorities attempted to identify security breaches. The documents explored in this article are different: They present multiple voices speaking at length, negotiating their very status as voices. From that negotiation and its failures emerge a set of practiced meanings of penal “slavery” in eighteenth-century Copenhagen tied to competing yet intertwined notions of dishonour.
},
keywords = {convict labour, early modern history, global labour history, punishment, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Østhus, Hanne; Toplak, Matthias S. (Ed.)
Viking Age Slavery Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, scandinavia, slavery
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title = {Viking Age Slavery},
editor = {Hanne Østhus and Matthias S. Toplak},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {The existence of slaves in Viking Age society and the slave trade of the Vikings has been a matter of long debates. While the actual fact has now been established beyond any doubt, many questions remain. The possibilities of an archaeological approach to slavery and slave trade, the extent of slaves in Scandinavia and their importance for the economy as well as the scope of the slave trade and the implications for Viking Age society still need to be discussed. These aspects are the topic of ten recent papers united in this volume.
},
keywords = {medieval history, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
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Weber, Klaus
Germany and the Early Modern Atlantic World: Economic Involvement and Historiography Book Chapter
In: von Mallinckrodt, Rebekka; Köstlbauer, Josef; Lentz, Sarah (Ed.): Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850, 2021.
Tags: atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery
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author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Josef Köstlbauer and Sarah Lentz },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Beyond Exceptionalism Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650-1850},
keywords = {atlanic, early modern history, germany, historiography, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Weber, Klaus
Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness] Book Chapter
In: Windus, Astrid (Ed.): Arbeit – Macht – Kapital, pp. 51-60, 2021.
Tags: 19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour
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title = {Debatten um Sklaverei und Lohnarbeit im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Zwang zur Arbeit zum Recht auf Faulheit [Debates around Slavery and Wage Labour in the 18th and 19th Century: From the compulsion to work to the right to laziness]},
author = {Klaus Weber},
editor = {Astrid Windus et al. },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Arbeit – Macht – Kapital},
pages = {51-60},
keywords = {19th century, early modern history, slavery, wage labour},
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van Rossum, Matthias; Geelen, Alexander; van den Hout, Bram; Tosun, Merve (Ed.)
Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World Collection
2021.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, indian ocean, slavery
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title = {Testimonies of Enslavement: Sources on Slavery from the Indian Ocean World},
editor = {Matthias van Rossum and Alexander Geelen and Bram van den Hout and Merve Tosun},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {Drawing on the rich archives of the Court of Justice of Cochin, a main settlement of the Dutch East India Company, this book presents ten court cases that deal with themes of enslavement and 'enslavebility'. Offering detailed insights into interrogations and testimonies, they paint a unique picture of the complex historical realities in which processes of enslavement and relations of slavery were shaped.
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Chevaleyre, Claude
Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China Book Chapter
In: Allen, Richard B. (Ed.): Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900, pp. 150-177, 2021.
Tags: china, forced labour, human trafficking
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title = {Human Trafficking in Late Imperial China},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Richard B. Allen },
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Slavery and Bonded Labor in Asia, 1250-1900},
pages = {150-177},
keywords = {china, forced labour, human trafficking},
pubstate = {published},
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Heinsen, Johan
Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 66, iss. 1, pp. 111-133, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: convict labour, early modern history, europe, punishment
@article{nokey,
title = {Historicizing Extramural Convict Labour: Trajectories and Transitions in Early Modern Europe},
author = {Johan Heinsen},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {66},
issue = {1},
pages = {111-133},
abstract = {New global histories of punishment are steadily decentring the history of punishment and convict labour, challenging traditional conceptions of a linear path towards a single penal modernity and the penitentiary as the telos of its history. Through an exploration of three strands of extramural convict labour emerging in Copenhagen (1558), Ulm (1561), and Almadén (1566), this interpretative essay argues that this challenge can be furthered by taking a view of Europe's own penal history from which the focus is less on origins and more on how the landscape of punishment evolved through a continuous and largely contingent process of assemblage. In this process, a few key elements – labour, displacement, pain, and confinement – were combined and mixed to different effects in specific contexts. Along with that approach comes the need to historicize the process by relating it to other practices of labour coercion, both within the penal field and outside it.
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pubstate = {published},
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Perreaux, Nicolas
Œuvrer, servir, souffrir. A propos de quelques termes médiolatins Book Chapter
In: Lauwers, Michel (Ed.): Labeur et production au sein des monastères de l‘Occident médiéval, 2021.
Abstract | Tags: historical semantics, medieval history
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title = { Œuvrer, servir, souffrir. A propos de quelques termes médiolatins},
author = {Nicolas Perreaux},
editor = {Michel Lauwers},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Labeur et production au sein des monastères de l‘Occident médiéval},
abstract = {The purpose of this article is threefold: a) to show that work could not structurally exist in the Middle Ages, unless it is considered that all organized human activity constitutes work; b) to attempt to grasp the articulation of the main mediolatin terms usually translated as (or considered to belong to) “work”, by showing both the bridges between these terms and the numerous aporias that their listing generates; c) to shift the question, by insisting on the imperative of reconstructing the relations of production in medieval Europe – relations which had complex and partly indirect links with the above-mentioned Mediolatine terms.
},
keywords = {historical semantics, medieval history},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Perreaux, Nicolas
Des «seigneuries» laïques aux territoires ecclésiaux? Dynamique du processus de spatialisation dans les actes diplomatiques numérisés (VIIe-XIIIe siècles) Book Chapter
In: Martine, Tristan; Schneider, Jens (Ed.): Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques: Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècle), 2021.
Abstract | Tags: europe, medieval history, spatial history
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title = {Des «seigneuries» laïques aux territoires ecclésiaux? Dynamique du processus de spatialisation dans les actes diplomatiques numérisés (VIIe-XIIIe siècles)},
author = {Nicolas Perreaux},
editor = {Tristan Martine and Jens Schneider},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
booktitle = {Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques: Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècle)},
abstract = {This article examines the construction of the system of spatial organisation of medieval Europe as a whole. By analysing the evolution of the main spatial entities of this area (villa, pagus, comitatus, parochia, etc.) it draws up a general outline. This then allows various reflections on the specific dynamics of medieval Europe and its links with the Church.
},
keywords = {europe, medieval history, spatial history},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Greenfield-Liebst, Michelle
Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926. Book
2021.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, religion, slavery, Tanganjika, Zanzibar
@book{nokey,
title = {Labour and Christianity in the Missions: African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926.},
author = {Michelle Greenfield-Liebst},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
urldate = {2021-01-01},
abstract = {The findings expose how missionaries, as some of earliest examples of Europeans who tried to control African labour, supported and undermined certain livelihood trajectories. Despite the abolition of slavery in 1897 in Zanzibar and the fact that the UMCA was closely linked with the anti-slavery movement, ex-slaves continued to struggle with their social status.
},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, africa, christianity, religion, slavery, Tanganjika, Zanzibar},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
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2020
Rydén, Göran; Evans, Chris
Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century Book Chapter
In: Weiss, Holger (Ed.): Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, pp. 117-146, 2020.
Tags: atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Stocktaking at Christiansborg: Metals and Slaves in the Danish Atlantic Trade at the Mid-Eighteenth Century},
author = {Göran Rydén and Chris Evans},
editor = {Holger Weiss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Locating the Global. Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century},
pages = {117-146},
keywords = {atlanic, denmark, early modern history, scandinavia, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Chevaleyre, Claude
The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China Book Chapter
In: Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.): pp. 57-82, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, abolition, china, slavery
@inbook{nokey,
title = {The Abolition of Slavery and the Status of Slaves in Late Imperial China},
author = {Claude Chevaleyre},
editor = {Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani },
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
pages = {57-82},
abstract = {Chevaleyre explores ‘slavery’ in late imperial China by focusing on two commonly overlooked elements. First, he explores the original abolition process that emerged from Sino-Western confrontations in the context of the Shanghai Settlement and its Mixed Court in the first decade of the twentieth century. Second, he attempts to shed light on the conceptualization of ‘slavery’ as it surfaces from early Ming legislative sources and to question its impact on the shaping of social practices. In so doing, Chevaleyre considers ‘China’ as a global normative space and approaches the issue of ‘slavery’ in this global space ‘from above’, that is, by focusing on the abstraction of ‘slavery’ rather than on the concrete situation of ‘slaves’.},
keywords = {20th century, abolition, china, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Weber, Klaus; Voss, Karsten
Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715) Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, pp. 204-237, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery
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title = {Their Most Valuable and Most Vulnerable Asset: Slaves on the Early Sugar Plantations of Saint-Domingue (1697-1715)},
author = {Klaus Weber and Karsten Voss},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {5},
issue = {2},
pages = {204-237},
abstract = {From 1698, colonial officers and investors from France forged a conglomerate of companies for transforming Saint-Domingue into a sugar colony, thus augmenting incomes of tax farmers and of the crown. Capital was also captured from enemy colonies and generated through trade with Spanish possessions. The most important capital were slaves, both as laborers and mortgageable property—crucial during the War of Spanish Succession, which brought price volatility and speculation in land and sugar. In order to secure the colony’s development, authorities restricted rights of owners over their slaves, preventing their sale or abuse. Only around 1715 was such protection of slaves suppressed.
},
keywords = {caribbean, colonialism, early modern history, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Schiel, Juliane
The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region Journal Article
In: Journal of Global Slavery, vol. 5, iss. 2, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: bonded labour, labour markets, medieval history, mediterranean, service, sla
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title = {The Ragusan “Maids-of-all-Work”. Shifting Labor Relations in the Late Medieval Adriatic Sea Region},
author = {Juliane Schiel},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Global Slavery},
volume = {5},
issue = {2},
abstract = {This article discusses bonded labor relations and their changes through the example of Slavic migrant workers in late medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Over roughly 150 years, Ragusa changed from a site of localized, endemic labor exploitation to a commodified labor market with transregional implications. Based on a close examination of notary deeds and legislative acts, the article presents an empirically grounded approach to category formation and a careful reconstruction of the Ragusan grammar of coericon. While labels and classification systems for unskilled Slavic migrants changed over time, they remained the “maids-of-all-work”—a nonspecialist labor force that could be taken into service for a variety of tasks wherever they were needed.
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keywords = {bonded labour, labour markets, medieval history, mediterranean, service, sla},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Zimmermann, Susan
“It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, But a Lived Reality.” Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s Book Chapter
In: Siefert, Marsha (Ed.): Labor in State-Socialist Europe: Contributions to a Global History of Work, pp. 337-372, 2020.
Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, gender, hunga, socialism
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title = {“It Shall Not Be a Written Gift, But a Lived Reality.” Equal Pay, Women’s Work, and the Politics of Labor in State-Socialist Hungary, Late 1960s to Late 1970s},
author = {Susan Zimmermann},
editor = {Marsha Siefert},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Labor in State-Socialist Europe: Contributions to a Global History of Work},
pages = {337-372},
keywords = {20th century, central and eastern europe, gender, hunga, socialism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Suodenjoki, Sami; Enbom, Leena; Pesonen, Pete
Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class
@book{nokey,
title = {Valvottu ja kuritettu työläinen.},
author = {Sami Suodenjoki and Leena Enbom and Pete Pesonen},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This volume consists of articles, which focus on the controlling and disciplining of workers in Finland from the late 19th to the early 21st century. The anthology addresses the practices of political surveillance and control of workers and working-class activists, gendered norms of artistic and sports workers, attitudes to cheats at work, and the direction and control of working-class housing.},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, contemporary, finland, housing, social control, working class},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
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Campbell, Gwyn; Stanziani, Alessandro (Ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: africa, bonded labour, forced labour, humanitarianism, indian ocean, longue duree
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title = {The Palgrave Handbook of Human Rights and Bondage in the Indian Ocean and Africa},
editor = {Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system—and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of unfree labour in Africa and Asia along with its contemporary manifestations. It takes an innovative longue durée perspective in order to link the local and global, the past and present. Contributors trace shifting forms of forced labour in the region since circa 1800, connecting punctual shocks such as environmental crisis, conflict, market instability, and crop failure to human security threats such as impoverishment, violence, migration, kidnapping, and enslavement. Together, these chapters illuminate the historical and contemporary dimensions of bondage in Africa and Asia.
},
keywords = {africa, bonded labour, forced labour, humanitarianism, indian ocean, longue duree},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
}
Siefert, Marsha (Ed.)
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe, socialism
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title = {Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work},
editor = {Marsha Siefert},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {The Introduction and 16 essays offer new conceptual and empirical ways to understand the history of labor regimes from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global.
},
keywords = {20th century, central and eastern europe, socialism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
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Seppel, Marten
The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806 Journal Article
In: Scandinavian Journal of History, vol. 45, iss. 1, pp. 48-70, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, scandinavia, serfdom, sweden
@article{nokey,
title = {The Semiotics of Serfdom: How serfdom was perceived in the Swedish conglomerate state, 1561–1806},
author = {Marten Seppel},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Scandinavian Journal of History},
volume = {45},
issue = {1},
pages = {48-70},
abstract = {While serfdom did not exist in Sweden and Finland, it was accepted in the Baltic and German provinces. The main aim of the paper is to explore how the institution of serfdom was understood and interpreted in Stockholm. It will argue that there were clichés, stereotypes, and prejudices that have shaped the discourse on serfdom.
},
keywords = {early modern history, scandinavia, serfdom, sweden},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Schiel, Juliane; Vito, Christian De; van Rossum, Matthias
From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History Journal Article
In: Journal of Social History, vol. 54, iss. 2, pp. 1-19, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, global labour history, historical semantics, methodology, new history of work
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title = {From Bondage to Precariousness? New Perspectives on Labor and Social History},
author = {Juliane Schiel and Christian De Vito and Matthias van Rossum},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Journal of Social History},
volume = {54},
issue = {2},
pages = {1-19},
abstract = {This article explores the possibility of a new, empirically based analytical and methodological framework for the study of labour relations and the reinterpretation of contemporary issues, including precariousness, „modern slavery,” social inequality, and dependence. It proposes a contextualized, interrelational and transepochal approach and discusses the potential of three research strategies.
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keywords = {dependency, global labour history, historical semantics, methodology, new history of work},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Ruoss, Matthias; Ludi, Regula
Die Großmütter und wir: Freiwilligkeit, Feminismus und Geschlechterarrangements in der Schweiz Journal Article
In: L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. 31, iss. 1, pp. 87-104, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, feminism, gender, switzerland, voluntarism
@article{nokey,
title = {Die Großmütter und wir: Freiwilligkeit, Feminismus und Geschlechterarrangements in der Schweiz},
author = {Matthias Ruoss and Regula Ludi},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft},
volume = {31},
issue = {1},
pages = {87-104},
abstract = {What is voluntarism and how can we conceptualize it as a subject of historical research? In this article we address these questions with regard to the relationship between gender arrangements and voluntarism in modern Switzerland. Our considerations are premised on the assumption that voluntary aid is not a spontaneous act or an amorphous activity but rather constitutes a mode that regulates social relations and structures the social order.
},
keywords = {20th century, feminism, gender, switzerland, voluntarism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro; Carvalhal, Hélder
Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal Journal Article
In: Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, vol. 38, iss. 1, pp. 45–77, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, economic development, gender, portugal
@article{nokey,
title = {Reconsidering the Southern European Model: Marital Status, Women’s work and labour relations in mid-eighteenth century Portugal},
author = {Filipa Ribeiro da Silva and Hélder Carvalhal},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Revista de Historia Económica. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History},
volume = {38},
issue = {1},
pages = {45–77},
abstract = {Challenging current ideas in mainstream scholarship on differences between female labour force participation in southern and north-western Europe and their impact on economic development, this article shows that in Portugal, neither marriage nor widowhood prevented women from participating in the labour market of mid-eighteenth-century. Our research demonstrates that marriage provided women with the resources they needed to work in various capacities in all economic sectors.
},
keywords = {early modern history, economic development, gender, portugal},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Prisac, Lidia; Gumenâi, Ion
Between Separation an Unity in the Context of the Great Union. Armenians from Bessarabia Book Chapter
In: Bolovan, Ioan; Tămaș, Oana Mihaela (Ed.): World War I and the Birth of a New World Order: The End of an Era, pp. 184-203, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, central and eastern europe
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title = {Between Separation an Unity in the Context of the Great Union. Armenians from Bessarabia},
author = {Lidia Prisac and Ion Gumenâi},
editor = {Ioan Bolovan and Oana Mihaela Tămaș },
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {World War I and the Birth of a New World Order: The End of an Era},
pages = {184-203},
abstract = {This article tells about national minorities behaviour, such as Armenians, in dificult event of World War I in a “contested” space of Eastern Europe.
},
keywords = {20th century, central and eastern europe},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes
Migration Book Chapter
In: Hermans, Erik (Ed.): A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages, pp. 477-510, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, migration and mobility
@inbook{nokey,
title = {Migration},
author = {Johannes Preiser-Kapeller},
editor = {Erik Hermans},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages},
pages = {477-510},
abstract = {This chapter provides an overview how migration connected different region of early medieval Afro-Eurasia between 600 and 900 CE, with a special focus on occupation mobility, trade diasporas and the migration of labour forces.
},
keywords = {medieval history, migration and mobility},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes; Reinfandt, Lucian; Stouraitis, Yannis (Ed.)
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E Collection
2020.
Abstract | Tags: ancient history, medieval history, migration and mobility, slavery
@collection{nokey,
title = {Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300-1500 C.E},
editor = {Johannes Preiser-Kapeller and Lucian Reinfandt and Yannis Stouraitis},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This volume includes a general overview and case studies of mobility and migration across different spatial scale in the area from Eastern Europe to East Africa and from Central Asia to the Mediterranean, including phenomena of (voluntary and involuntary) labour mobility and slavery.
},
keywords = {ancient history, medieval history, migration and mobility, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {collection}
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Piqueras, José Antonio
The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery Book Chapter
In: Tomich, Dale (Ed.): Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery, pp. 79-103, 2020.
Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery
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title = {The End of the legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second Slavery},
author = {José Antonio Piqueras},
editor = {Dale Tomich},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Atlantic transformations: Politics, Economy, and the Second Slavery},
pages = {79-103},
keywords = {19th century, abolition, atlanic, caribbean, latin america, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
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Papastefanaki, Leda
Family, Gender, and Labour in the Greek Mines, 1860–1940 Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 65, iss. 2, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, gender, greece, mining
@article{nokey,
title = {Family, Gender, and Labour in the Greek Mines, 1860–1940},
author = {Leda Papastefanaki},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {65},
issue = {2},
abstract = {To date, research on work in the mines in Greece has ignored the significance of gender in the workplace, since mining is associated exclusively with male labour. As such, it is considered, indirectly, not subject to gender relations. The article examines the influence of family and gender relations on labour in the Greek mines in the period 1860–1940 by highlighting migration trajectories, paternalistic practices, and the division of labour in mining communities. Sources include: official publications of the Mines Inspectorate and the Mines and Industrial Censuses, the Greek Miners’ Fund Archive, British and French consular reports, various economic and technical reports by experts, literature and narratives, the local press from mining regions, and the Archive of the Seriphos Mines.
},
keywords = {19th century, 20th century, gender, greece, mining},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Barragán, Rossana Romano; Papastefanaki, Leda
Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction Journal Article
In: International Review of Social History , vol. 65, iss. 2, pp. 191-231, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: gender, global labour history, mining
@article{nokey,
title = {Women and Gender in the Mines: Challenging Masculinity Through History: An Introduction},
author = {Rossana Romano Barragán and Leda Papastefanaki},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
journal = {International Review of Social History },
volume = {65},
issue = {2},
pages = {191-231},
abstract = {The role of women as mineworkers and as household workers has been erased. Here, we challenge the masculinity associated with the mines, taking a longer-term and a global labour history perspective. We foreground the importance of women as mineworkers in different parts of the world since the early modern period and analyse the changes introduced in coal mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the masculinization and mechanization, and the growing importance of women in contemporary artisanal and small-scale mining. The effect of protective laws and the exclusion of women from underground tasks was to restrict women’s work more to the household, which played a pivotal role in mining communities but is insufficiently recognized. This process of “de-labourization” of women’s work was closely connected with the distinction between productive and unproductive labour. This introductory article therefore centres on the important work carried out in the household by women and children. Finally, we present the three articles in the Special Theme in International Review of Social History and discuss how each of them is in dialogue with the topics addressed here.
},
keywords = {gender, global labour history, mining},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Papastefanaki, Leda; Kabadayı, Erdem M. (Ed.)
Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940 Bachelor Thesis
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, global labour history, greece, ottoman empire, turkey
@bachelorthesis{nokey,
title = {Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation States, 1840–1940},
editor = {Leda Papastefanaki and Erdem M. Kabadayı},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The 14 studies in “Working in Greece and Turkey” provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.
},
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pubstate = {published},
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}
Kaarsholm, Preben
From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Journal Article
In: Atlantic Studies, vol. 17, iss. 3, pp. 348-374, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery
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title = {From Abolition of the Slave Trade to Protection of Immigrants: Danish Colonialism, German Missionaries, and the Development of Ideas of Humanitarian Governance from the Early Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century},
author = {Preben Kaarsholm},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Atlantic Studies},
volume = {17},
issue = {3},
pages = {348-374},
abstract = {The focus of the essay is the emergence in the eighteenth century of discourses of abolition in the context of bonded labour and the trade in slaves from India. It relates this to the development in forms of unfree labour from slavery to indenture, and to the travels of abolitionism from the Indian Ocean world into that of the Atlantic. The study examines multinational dimensions of this early history of abolition and discusses more particularly how missionary enterprises based in Danish colonies in India contributed to the development of ideas of education, enlightenment, and natural rights that fed into emerging discourses of abolitionism. Further, the essay links eighteenth-century debates around abolition to discourses of protection and humanitarianism that became prominent in the last half of the nineteenth century in the context of imperialist competition and campaigns against the illegal slave trade.
},
keywords = {19th century, abolition, atlanic, bonded labour, denmark, early modern history, humanitarianism, indian ocean, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Hackett, Sarah
Britain’s Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration. Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, contemporary, migration and mobility, muslims, oral history, qualitative research, united kingdom
@book{nokey,
title = {Britain’s Rural Muslims: Rethinking Integration.},
author = {Sarah Hackett},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This study draws upon archival documentation and oral history interviews, and explores the integration of Muslim migrant communities in an English rural county across the post-1960s period. It focuses on a range of topics, including local government policy and migrants’ experiences in the labour and housing markets, education, and religious practice and recognition.
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keywords = {20th century, agrarian labour and rural history, contemporary, migration and mobility, muslims, oral history, qualitative research, united kingdom},
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Gluchman, Vasil
Slovak Marxist-Leninist Philosophy on Work: Experience of the Second Half of the 20th Century Journal Article
In: Studies in East European Thought, vol. 72, iss. 1, pp. 43-58, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, marxism, philosophy, slovakia, socialism
@article{nokey,
title = {Slovak Marxist-Leninist Philosophy on Work: Experience of the Second Half of the 20th Century},
author = {Vasil Gluchman},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
journal = {Studies in East European Thought},
volume = {72},
issue = {1},
pages = {43-58},
abstract = {The paper analyses the concept of work in Slovak Marxist-Leninist philosophy and ethics in the second half of the twentieth century by referencing, in particular, Furnham’s critical assessment of the relationship between left-wing ideology and the values of work ethic. The author comes to the conclusion that, on the one hand, Marxist-Leninist ideology and the practice of building socialism made the notion and phenomenon of work into an ideological fetish; on the other hand, however, the real value of work and its contribution to the development of society was depreciated. Instead of bringing about the liberation of work all that it engendered was a new form of its alienation.
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keywords = {20th century, marxism, philosophy, slovakia, socialism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
de Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes
Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century] Journal Article
In: 2020.
Abstract | Tags: early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery
@article{nokey,
title = {Cumprir Marrocos em Portugal: a comunidade mourisca de Setúbal no século XVI [Fulfilling Morocco in Portugal: the Moorish community of Setúbal in the 16th century]},
author = {Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {This article explores, in part, the coercive work of Moorish slaves in Setúnal (Portugal) in the 16th century and how that work is reproduced after freedom.
},
keywords = {early modern history, muslims, portugal, slavery},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Bänziger, Peter-Paul
Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940 Book
2020.
Abstract | Tags: 19th century, 20th century, consumption history, germany, history of everyday life, modernity
@book{nokey,
title = {Die Moderne als Erlebnis. Eine Geschichte der Konsum- und Arbeitsgesellschaft, ca. 1840-1940},
author = {Peter-Paul Bänziger},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
abstract = {In the decades around 1900, the German-speaking societies underwent profound changes affecting both work and consumption. Based on more than one hundred diaries, the book examines how people perceived their everyday life. In their eyes, life should above all be fun and provide diversions – in leisure time as well as at work. The bourgeois value of a general industriousness however, by which so many diaries of the 19th century were characterized, played only a subordinate role.
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keywords = {19th century, 20th century, consumption history, germany, history of everyday life, modernity},
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Ågren, Maria
Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past Book Chapter
In: Bischoff, Jeannine (Ed.): Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications, 2020.
Abstract | Tags: dependency, early modern history, historical semantics, new history of work, service, sweden
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title = {Service, help and delegation: What vaguely described work can tell us about labour relations in the past},
author = {Maria Ågren},
editor = {Jeannine Bischoff},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-01},
urldate = {2020-01-01},
booktitle = {Beyond Slavery and Freedom: Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependence Studies Publications},
abstract = {This article explores a dataset of verb-phrases culled from early modern Swedish sources, all of which describe work in vague terms. The analysis shows that vaguely described work (e.g. ‘to work’, ‘to serve’) often appeared together with information on for whom, where and under what conditions the work in question had taken place. In other words, work was neither described as a concrete task nor as an occupation; instead, it was the labour relation that people tended to describe.
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2019
Almagro-Vidal, Clara
“Our Moors”: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile Book Chapter
In: Morton, Nicholas (Ed.): The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, pp. 139-148, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: medieval history, military, muslims, spain
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title = {“Our Moors”: Military Orders and Unfree Muslims in the Kingdom of Castile},
author = {Clara Almagro-Vidal},
editor = {Nicholas Morton},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-09-01},
urldate = {2019-09-01},
booktitle = {The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property},
pages = {139-148},
abstract = {Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile had taken over as administrators of the Order in 1487 and had also instituted the forced baptism of Muslims, thereby creating the problem. The military orders present in the Kingdom of Castile during the Middle Ages have been chosen as a case study. This chapter discusses a bigger project that aims to study the relationship between military orders and Muslims living in their Iberian lands during the Middle Ages. A significant number of the Muslims mentioned in association with military orders were slaves. Although undoubtedly many Muslim captives of the orders ended up as slaves and were appreciated for the potential role, they also held value in themselves as leverage for the liberation of Christians who had suffered the same fate. The interpretation of the partial exemption, and also the status of Muslims living under the rule of the Order, becomes even more muddled because of another contradictory account.
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keywords = {medieval history, military, muslims, spain},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inbook}
}
Özbek, Müge Telci
"Disorderly Women" and the Politics of Urban Space in Early Twentieth-Century Istanbul, 1900-1914 Book Chapter
In: Cronin, Stephanie (Ed.): Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' since 1800, pp. 51-64, 2019.
Tags: 20th century, gender, ottoman empire, turkey, urbanity
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author = {Müge Telci Özbek},
editor = {Stephanie Cronin},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' since 1800},
pages = {51-64},
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Zammit, William
The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798 Book Chapter
In: Morton, Nicholas (Ed.): The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property, pp. 160-171, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: christianity, early modern history, malta, muslims, religion
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title = {The Faith Triumphant: Muslim Converts to Catholicism and the Order of St John, 1530-1798},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
booktitle = {The Military Orders, Vol. VII: Piety, Pugnacity and Property},
pages = {160-171},
abstract = {A study upon the motivations and mechanisms of Muslim conversion to Catholicism in Hospitaller Malta. Both Muslim slaves but also free Muslims periodically opted for conversion in Malta. The paper provides statistical data of such conversions from untapped primary sources.
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Hotson, Howard; Wallnig, Thomas (Ed.)
Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship Bachelor Thesis
2019.
Abstract | Tags: digital humanities, early modern history, historical semantics
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title = {Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age. Standards, Systems, Scholarship},
editor = {Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
abstract = {The book documents the efforts of COST Action IS1310 (2014-18) in bringing together a community of digital scholars interested in early modern correspondence and intellectual culture at large. It outlines the dimensions of the digital approach – from tech to discourse -, and it celebrates the benefits of collaborative work encouraged by the COST program.
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keywords = {digital humanities, early modern history, historical semantics},
pubstate = {published},
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Viitaniemi, Ella
Muurarimestari Kustaa Stenman ja katumaton maailma. Pietismi, kirjoittaminen ja kokemuksen siirtäminen länsisuomalaisella maaseudulla 1700-jälkipuoliskolla [Master mason Kustaa Stenman and the unrepentant world. Piestism, Literacy and the Transition of Experience in the Western Finland] Book Chapter
In: Annola, Johanna; Kivimäki, Ville; Malinen, Antti (Ed.): pp. 75–112, 2019.
Tags: early modern history, finland, religion
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title = { Muurarimestari Kustaa Stenman ja katumaton maailma. Pietismi, kirjoittaminen ja kokemuksen siirtäminen länsisuomalaisella maaseudulla 1700-jälkipuoliskolla [Master mason Kustaa Stenman and the unrepentant world. Piestism, Literacy and the Transition of Experience in the Western Finland]},
author = {Ella Viitaniemi},
editor = {Johanna Annola and Ville Kivimäki and Antti Malinen},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
pages = {75–112},
keywords = {early modern history, finland, religion},
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