Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Bondage Imagined
6. 1 Second Serfdom and Wage Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-nineteenth Century 23
7. 2 Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia 42
8. Part II. The Architecture of Bondage: Slaves and Serfs in Central Asia and Russia
9. 3 Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century 63
10. 4 The Institutions of Serfdom 101
11. 5 Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates 127
12. Part III. Old Bondage, New Practices: A Comparative View of the Russian, European, and Indian Ocean Worlds
13. 6 The Persistent Servant: Labor, Rules, and Social Hierarchies in France and Britain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century 147
14. 7 Bondage across the Ocean: Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean 175
15. Conclusion. The Collapse and Resurgence of Bondage 204
16. References 217
17. Index 253