CFP - Runaways : Desertion and Mobility in Global Labor History (c. 1650-1850)

Runaways: Desertion and Mobility in Global Labor History, c. 1650-1850 22-23 October 2015, Amsterdam Call for Papers International Institute of Social History Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Early modern globalization depended on the mobility and work of millions of workers who were crucial to production, transport, protection, and warfare. Bound by contract, slavery or otherwise, most of the labour relations through which sailors, soldiers, craftsmen, convicts and slaves we..