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A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850
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Edited by:
Marcus Rediker
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
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Rediker Marcus :
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University.
Matthias van Rossum is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
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eBook published on:
July 30, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780520973060
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280
eBook ISBN:
9780520973060
Keywords for this book
collection of essays about runaways; compares and connects runaways; global capitalisms long ascent; sixteen hundred to eighteen fifty; workers ran away from bosses; slaves; convicts; sailors; soldiers; domestic workers; indentured servants; capitalism required many workers; build foundation of economic order; laborers challenged that order; undermining of danish colonization; igniting of civil war in us; britain; denmark; holland; france; mughal; portugal; america
