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European Expansion and Unfree Labour: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2011

P. C. Emmer
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Did the expansion of Europe create large numbers of unfree labourers in Africa, Asia and the New World or was the use of unfree labour in a colonial setting nothing else but an adaptation to the labour traditions of the non-European world? It is fascinating to see how unique free labour actually was in the early modern world. Historically speaking, free labour was usually the exception and unfree labour the rule, especially when we consider non-European controlled labour systems.

Type
Introduction
Information
Itinerario , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 9 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1997

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