Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850)

Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850)

Frykman, Niklas; Brandon, Pepijn; Roge, Pernille

Cambridge University Press

06/2019

266

Mole

Inglês

9781108708562

15 a 20 dias

390

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Introduction. Free and unfree labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean port cities (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) Pepijn Brandon, Niklas Frykman and Pernille Roge; 1. Labouring transformations of amphibious monsters: exploring early modern globalization, diversity, and shifting clusters of labour relations in the context of the Dutch East India Company (1600-1800) Matthias van Rossum; 2. History below the waterline: enslaved salvage divers harvesting seaports' hinter-seas in the early modern Atlantic Kevin Dawson; 3. The household workers of the East India Company ports of pre-colonial Bengal Titas Chakraborty; 4. Between the plantation and the port: racialization and social control in eighteenth-century Paramaribo Pepijn Brandon; 5. Securing trade: the military labor of the British occupation of Manila, 1762-1764 Megan C. Thomas; 6. The path to sweet success: free and unfree labor in the building of roads and rails in Havana, Cuba, 1790-1835 Evelyn P. Jennings; 7. Liberated Africans, slaves, and convict labor in the construction of Rio de Janeiro's Casa de Correcao: Atlantic labor regimes and confinement in Brazil's port city Martine Jean; 8. Convicts, commodities, and connections in British Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1789-1866 Clare Anderson; 9. Street food, urban space, and gender: working on the streets of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro (1830-1870) Melina Teubner; 10. Afterword: reflections on the motley crew as port city proletariat Marcus Rediker.