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From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas (review)

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas (review) Book Reviews From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 309. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). At the core of From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves is a laudable premise. Its fourteen essays are organized around the idea that negotiation over working conditions and/or material rewards regularly and systematically took place between nonwhite workers and those who employed them. As such, all laborers, regardless of their formal legal status, could be placed on a continuum based upon the degrees and levels of "freedom" they enjoyed. While this might not strike students of either slavery or the "work process" in twentieth-century America as either new or especially interesting, the book's central assumption does go a considerable distance toward connecting the numerous histories of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the free "labor history" that addresses work-related issues in the years after the demise of the "peculiar institution." The process approach that editor Mary Turner adapts in her introduction highlights the varied forms of bargaining into which masters and slaves, employers and employees, entered. Many scholars, too numerous to mention here, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas (review)

Journal of World History , Volume 8 (1) – Feb 24, 2005

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Book Reviews From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas. Edited by Mary Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. x + 309. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). At the core of From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves is a laudable premise. Its fourteen essays are organized around the idea that negotiation over working conditions and/or material rewards regularly and systematically took place between nonwhite workers and those who employed them. As such, all laborers, regardless of their formal legal status, could be placed on a continuum based upon the degrees and levels of "freedom" they enjoyed. While this might not strike students of either slavery or the "work process" in twentieth-century America as either new or especially interesting, the book's central assumption does go a considerable distance toward connecting the numerous histories of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with the free "labor history" that addresses work-related issues in the years after the demise of the "peculiar institution." The process approach that editor Mary Turner adapts in her introduction highlights the varied forms of bargaining into which masters and slaves, employers and employees, entered. Many scholars, too numerous to mention here,

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Journal of World HistoryUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Feb 24, 2005

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