From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas
1997; Duke University Press; Volume: 77; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00182168-77.2.310
ISSN1527-1900
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
ResumoPart 1 Negotiating slavery - informal contracts and cash rewards: chattel slaves to wage slaves - a Jamaican case study, Mary Turner strategies into slave subsistence - the Jamaican case reconsidered, R.B. Sheridan strategies of slave subsistence - foods, markets and survival, Michael Mullin Never on Sunday? - slavery and the Sabbath in Lawacountry, Georgia 1750-1830, Betty Wood work and resistance in the New Republic - the case of Chesapeake 1770-1820, Lorena Welsh proto-proletarians? slave in the Americas, O. Nigel Bolland for in urban Surinam 1760-1830, Rosemary Brana-Shute a slow and extended abolition - the Bahamas 1800-1838, Howard Johnson. Part 2 Counteracting - contract and coercion: between slavery and free labour - in Brazil and Cuba, Lucia Lamounier resistance among Asian plantation workers in Peru 1870-1920 the worker and the wage in a plantation economy - Trinidad in the late 19th century, Kusha Haraksingh. Part 3 Achieving rights for labour - confrontation and collective bargaining: contested terrains - houses, provision grounds and the reconstitution of labour in post-emancipation Martinique, Dale Tomich post-emancipation protest in Jamaica - the Morant Bay rebellion 1865, Gad Heuman the pursuit of higher wages and perfect personal freedom in St Kitts-Nevis 1836-1956, Glen Richards.
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