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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Free labor"”.
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FROM SLAVE TO FREE LABOR IN THE BRAZILIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY: THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF SOCIAL CONTROL AND CRIME IN PERNAMBUCO, 1850-1922
… shifted from a slave to quasi-capitalist. The labor transition was not an evolutionary outgrowth of existing work relations--it involved struggle and coercion. The first part of this research shows how repressive social control effected the transformation of the mode of production; the second …
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'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865
… is the relationship between the development of free labor plantations, humanitarian care for black refugees, and military emancipation. Although historians have tended to separate out the development of free labor plantations and military emancipation out into discrete streams of analysis, Union …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… abolition held the possibility of demonstrating free labor more profitable than slavery. Besides elating the world’s abolitionists, always hopeful of equating material with moral progress, the experiment’s success would benefit Britain economically. Presented evidence of the greater profits of …
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Migration, Colonialism, Globalization: Histories of the Free -Subject and the Sovereign Nation-State
… and institutionalize the very categories---of free labor and nationality---that undergird bourgeois political economy and the nation-state, which we now not only privilege in studying migration, but which are among the salient categories that organize our social world. And, second, that the …
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The Salzburgers' "City On A Hill": The Failure Of A Pietist Vision In Ebenezer, Georgia, 1734-1774
… to sacrifice their goals for an orphanage, a free labor economy, and a closely structured community of persecuted Protestants. They ensured Ebenezer's economic success and social autonomy, but they were unable to replicate their sponsors' most distinctly Pietist economic, social and religious …
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Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833
… and agricultural political economies premised on free labor regimes. Tracing the sweep of history from the British-American imperial crisis through the American Revolution, and into the Early American Republic, “Human Capital” argues that northeasterners like Rhode Island textile capitalist and …
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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
… of the western landscape; one characterized by free labor, the other slave. Westward expansion also highlighted debate about Indians, long relegated to the role of the savage other by the myth of the frontier. Yet, on the southern frontier, the conversation was different, as slaveholding …
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Philanthropic Colonialism: New England Philanthropy in Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1860
… by the New England elite to make the territories free was intertwined in a larger web of philanthropic motivations aimed to steer the future of America on a path that would replicate New England society throughout the country. The process and goal of their philanthropy in the Kansas-Nebraska …
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Motivating Factors for Hispanic American Volunteers: A Phenomenological Study of Non-Profit Environmental Advocacy Organizations in Southern California
… to be worth over one hundred billion dollars in free labor. Volunteering is essential for most non-profit organizations in the United States because they lack the revenue to afford to pay for this necessary labor. Statistics show volunteer rates in environmental organizations in the United States …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… brand of Southern Republicanism that fused free labor ideology with paternalism, while balancing white supremacy with African American suffrage. Compton's career demonstrates how, for a time, scalawags were able to reconcile their conservative Southern political values with those of the …
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A Eurafrican Future: France, Algeria, and the Treaty of Rome (1951-1975)
… to Algeria and its residents the guarantees of free labor circulation, development aid, and tariff preferences open to metropolitan citizens through EEC membership. Because French officials hoped to preserve trade relations and sought to quell crises across the empire, they negotiated EEC …
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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920
… beyond issues of identity, racial violence, and labor disputes, I show how Jim Crow unfolded and operated in the post-Civil War North by emphasizing the importance of political economy and ideas about public health and welfare. Beginning in the 1880s, ideas about the rights and health of …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
This dissertation is a labor history of the United States army in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that soldiers constituted a partially-unfree labor force essential to the advance of U.S. imperialism. The project draws on government reports, military records, court-martial …
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No ELA Without Ella: Understanding the Naming and Crafting of Gendered Subjectivities in Puerto Rico
… be interpreted as unskilled, cheap, or even free labor in Puerto Rico (Azize, 1985; Muñiz Mas, 1998; Baerga-Santini, 1999). For this reason, Puerto Rican women organized and fought for equality in work settings. Furthermore, they became more active in politics and the government. …
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The Power To Protect Themselves: Gender, Protective Labor Legislation, And Public Policy In Michigan, 1883-1913
<p>This study provides a narrative of laborers' fight for legal protection through the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Since American law was one of the most important forces in shaping and limiting workplace reform, both labor unionists and reformers used the law to try to solve labor problems. …
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Tabi. Tabbi. Tabique. Tabby.
… changed the prevalence of tabby which relied on free labor to produce the time intensive process of burning and collecting oyster shells. However, despite its importance in American building culture, tabby is a material that has faded historically and materially. If one were to happen across a …
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Interests And Ideas: Industrialization And The Making Of Early American Trade Policy, 1789 - 1860
… exclusive economic systems, an industrializing, free-labor North and a slave-based agricultural South, against one another. The traditional interpretation is that the North eagerly supported tariffs and economic protection that they provided, while the South stood in opposition. The Nullification …
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“WE ARE JUST EVERYDAY PEOPLE AND WOMEN”: AN EXAMINATION OF SELF-PRESENTATION OF NBA WIVES AND THE TWO-PERSON CAREER ON INSTAGRAM
… some argue is an exploitation of women and their free labor that ultimately benefit others for the maintenance and reproduction of sport (Ortiz, 2006; Thompson, 1990). Previous research has shown that professional sport wives experience a variety of disparities at the hands of the sport marriage, …
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El trabajo gratuito bobo en los planes para el desarrollo de la economía digital en América Latina
… los roles a los que se han asociado estas labores no remuneradas históricamente. El análisis es complementado con una serie de entrevistas semiestructuradas con funcionarios que participaron en la elaboración de dichos documentos, en las cuales se les confronta con la ausencia del concepto …