Workers in Bondage
Author | : Kay Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780702212833 |
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Author | : Kay Saunders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780702212833 |
Author | : Kay Saunders |
Publisher | : University of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921902108 |
Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing the realities of white labor and the early trade union struggles in the sugar industry. Underlying the text is an analysis of labor manipulation by capitalism in a new colony during a time of transition from slavery to indenture in the British Empire. This is a comprehensive and insightful academic examination of the little known history of the enslavement of Pacific Island workers in Australian convict-era industries, as well as a wider study of race relations in a frontier society.
Author | : John C Kenworthy |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781020117961 |
In this book, Kenworthy offers a powerful message to workers about how to transform their conditions from bondage to brotherhood. He calls on workers to unite, offering practical insights into how they can organize and fight for their rights. Furthermore, Kenworthy details the history of the labor movement and how workers have struggled to improve their conditions. As a call to action, this book remains an important contribution to the study of labor and social movements in the 20th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Alessandro Stanziani |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782382518 |
For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in form of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. Stanziani shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth that took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. This growth was labor intensive: commercial expansion, transformations in agriculture, and the first industrial revolution required more labor, not less. Finally, Stanziani demonstrates that this world did not collapse after the French Revolution or the British industrial revolution, as is commonly assumed, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.
Author | : Utsa Patnaik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Peonage |
ISBN | : |
Essays on historical aspects, economic implications, sociological aspects and legal aspects of bonded labour and forced labour in India - examines the nature of slavery in ancient and medieval India, as well as under colonialism; includes case studies of bondage of agricultural workers and weaving skilled worker, rural workers employed in brick kilns, tribal peoples, migrant workers, and rural women forced into prostitution; comments on related legislation and obstacles to the abolition of debt bondage. Bibliography, references, statistical tables.
Author | : W. Somerset Maugham |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2021-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1513288253 |
Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Inspired by his experiences as an orphan and young student, Maugham composed his masterpiece. Adapted several times for film, Of Human Bondage is a story of tragedy, perseverance, and the eternal search for happiness which drives us as much as it haunts our every move. Orphaned as a boy, Philip Carey is raised in an affectionless household by his aunt and uncle. Although his Aunt Louisa tries to make him feel welcome, William proves an uncaring, vindictive man. Left to fend for himself most days, Philip finds solace in the family’s substantial collection of books, which serve as an escape for the imaginative boy. Sent to study at a prestigious boarding school, Philip struggles to fit in with his peers, who abuse him for his intelligence and club foot. Despite his struggles, he perseveres in his studies and chooses his own path in life, moving to Heidelberg, Germany and denying his uncle’s wish that he attend Oxford. As he struggles to become a professional artist, Philip learns that one’s dreams are often unsubstantiated in the world of the living. Of Human Bondage is a tale of desire, disappointment, and romance by a master stylist with a keen sense of the complications inherent to human nature. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage is a classic work of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author | : Deirdre Cooper Owens |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2017-11-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0820351342 |
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation. In Medical Bondage, Cooper Owens examines a wide range of scientific literature and less formal communications in which gynecologists created and disseminated medical fictions about their patients, such as their belief that black enslaved women could withstand pain better than white “ladies.” Even as they were advancing medicine, these doctors were legitimizing, for decades to come, groundless theories related to whiteness and blackness, men and women, and the inferiority of other races or nationalities. Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how nineteenth-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals. It also retells the story of black enslaved women and of Irish immigrant women from the perspective of these exploited groups and thus restores for us a picture of their lives.
Author | : Edwin Markham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |