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- Presents a sweeping, complex picture of labor in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world
- Features extensive use of judicial archives to examine how the law was used in concrete situations, by whom and what impact it had on labor and social inequalities
- Appeals to scholars of labor history, Indian history, African history, political philosophy and human rights, colonialism and imperialism, and global history
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- history of labor
- history of slavery
- glocal history
- labor law
- labor in France and Britain
- abolition of slavery
- colonial slavery
- French Congo
- labor rights
- Welfare in the colonies
- Maritime history
- Indian ocean
- human rights
- Indian Ocean slavery
- Mascarene Islands
- Assam
- African abolition movement
- Indian abolition movement
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Authors and Affiliations
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EHESS-PSL and CNRS, Paris, France
Alessandro Stanziani
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labor on the Fringes of Empire
Book Subtitle: Voice, Exit and the Law
Authors: Alessandro Stanziani
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70392-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70391-6Published: 31 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88930-6Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70392-3Published: 23 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 334
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Labor History, Imperialism and Colonialism, European History, Social History