Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries

Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries [2012]. Edited by Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS and CNRS (To read the introduction of the book, follow this link) The history of the forms of “free” labour is intimately linked to that of coerced labour. In this book, worldwide acknowledged specialists of Russia, China, Russia, Japan, India, the Indian Ocean, France and Britain show that between the seventeenth and the twentieth century, forms of labour and bondage were d..