Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850)
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Pepijn Brandon
Edited by Niklas Frykman
Edited by Pernille Roge
SeriesInternational Review of Social History Supplements
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:266
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreColonialism and imperialism
Slavery and abolition of slavery
ISBN/Barcode 9781108708562
ClassificationsDewey:306.09
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 13 June 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured servants, convicts, and slaves. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century the labor of these 'motley crews' made port cities crucial hubs of the emerging capitalist world market and centers of imperial infrastructure. The nine chapters in this volume investigate the interaction between different groups of laborers around the docks and the neighborhoods that stretched behind them. How did the mixture of many different groups of laborers shape patterns of work and life, authority and control, exclusion and inclusion, group-competition and joint resistance? What roles did gender, race and status play in maintaining divisions or enabling solidarities? Together, the nine case studies present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class cultures in port cities.