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Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Labor [PDF]

, 2005
We present an economic framework to revisit and reframe some important debates over the nature of free versus unfree labor and the economic consequences of emancipation.
Alain De Janvry, Alan Knight, Alan V Deardorff, Arnold J Bauer, Avishay Braverman, Bengt Holmstrom, Claudia Goldin, David Northrup, David W Galenson, Douglass North, Eric Edmonds, Garance Genicot, George A Akerlof, Hans P Binswanger, Herman Nieboer, Jean Baland, Jonathan Conning, Jonathan Conning, Jonathan H. Conning, Kaushik Basu, Kenneth Sokoloff, Kevin Bales, M L Bush, Magnus Morner, Mats Lundahl, Michael Kevane, Michihiro Kandori, Paul A David, Paul Krugman, Peter Kolchin, Peter Kolchin, Pranab Bardhan, Robert Brenner, Robert Fogel, Roger L Ransom, Stanley L Engerman, Stephen De Castro, Steven N Durlauf, T H Aston, Terence J Byres, V O Kliuchevsky, Yujiro Hayami   +41 more
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Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

International Social Science Journal, Volume 75, Issue 257, Page 507-519, September 2025.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal, Austin Choi‐Fitzpatrick   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piecework forms of hiring workers in the landowner’s household of the Tambov Governorate at the late 19th century

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
We describe the working conditions of piecework workers of landowner’s household of Tambov Governorate at the late 19th century. We analyze the specifics of early forms of employment, the amount of wages, and the relationship between the employee and the
R. M. Zhitin
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Rural Revolution in Bolivia: Landlord Stubbornness, Colonial Intellectuals, and Rural Jacobins (1952–1953)

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 212-224, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peasant revolution that took place in Bolivia between November 1952 and November 1953 and seeks to explain why the peasantry took a revolutionary path. While existing explanations have emphasized the exploitative nature of the hacienda and the influence of external political actors, this article argues that the ...
Arián Laguna Quiroga
wiley   +1 more source

Ilmalikud laulud infoallikate ja haridusvahenditena talurahvavalgustuse ajal

Keel ja Kirjandus
The written and oral culture of the Baltic indigenous peoples underwent gradual changes in the late 18th and 19th centuries. According to Wolfgang Welsch, vision is linked with knowledge and science, while hearing relates to faith and religion (Welsch ...
Māra Grudule
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Peasant land tenure of Eastern Galicia in the second half of 19th – early 20th centuries

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We consider the problems of development of small land tenure in Eastern Galicia in the second half of 19th – early of 20th century. We show the dynamics of the property stratification of peasant population, the reasons for the households fragmentation ...
A. G. Topilsky
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Climate of migration? How climate triggered migration from southwest Germany to North America during the 19th century [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2017
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the extent to which climate and climatic change can have a negative impact on societies by triggering migration, or even contribute to conflict.
R. Glaser, I. Himmelsbach, A. Bösmeier
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The failed promise of freedom—Emancipation and wealth inequality in the Caribbean

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 952-974, August 2025.
Abstract Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons’ prospects to improve their socio‐economic status like after emancipation? To shed some light on these questions, this paper provides unique empirical evidence on patterns of wealth inequality before and ...
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli   +2 more
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Vanishing turning point. Piotr Chmielowski’s difficulties with periodization of the “recent Polish literature”

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2012
[An outline of the literature of the last sixteen years] written by Piotr Chmielowski was designed in the author’s intention as a sketch of “rather journalistic than historical features”.
Marek Wedeman
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The Legal Concept of Slavery in the Modern European Legal Sphere [PDF]

, 2014
The article explores the development of the concept of slavery in the European legal sphere. By means of an evolutionary approach, the author provides introduction to the first implementations of the prohibition of slavery in instruments of international
Pormeister, Kärt
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