Date: 2019
Type: Article
Introduction : labor coercion, labor control, and workers' agency
Labor history, 2019, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 865-868
MÜLLER, Viola Franziska, Introduction : labor coercion, labor control, and workers' agency, Labor history, 2019, Vol. 60, No. 6, pp. 865-868
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In April 2018, the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), taking place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, hosted a session entitled Labor Coercion, Labor Control, Workers’ Agency. Organized by members of the Free and Unfree Labour working group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN), this session successfully moved beyond the commonly regarded polar opposite forms of labor relations: slavery and free wage labor.1 Connecting different geographical areas and times, it offered a timely contribution to the new directions labor history as social history is taking and produced three scenarios along which the intertwinement of unfree labor conditions can be better understood. The common research theme around which the articles in this special theme revolve looks at ambiguities and possible contradictions between the dichotomy of free and unfree work. Concretely, the presented research investigates the existence of unfree labor relations within the realm of free labor.
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Published online: 18 Jul 2019
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/65558
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2019.1645319
ISSN: 0023-656X; 1469-9702
Publisher: Routledge
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