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    Free Labor through Marx's Capital

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    Pemantle, Walden
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    Moran, Michael
    Date
    2017
    Abstract
    Following the abolition of slavery or serfdom, wage labor became the norm for the laboring class of many nations. This article examines how capitalism and wage-labor replaced slavery and serfdom with other forms of coerced labor. The article uses the treatment of freedmen in Reconstruction-era Southern United States, Prussian ex-serfs in imperial Germany, and colonial subjects in German Togo as case studies to argue that government interference, commodification of labor and goods, and prioritization of surplus value (profit) each contributed to particularly coercive systems of wage labor.
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    This paper was written in Dr. Lora Wildenthal's history class, The History of Work (HIST 305).
    Citation
    Pemantle, Walden. Moran, Michael (illustrator). "Free Labor through Marx's Capital." Rice Historical Review, 2, no. Spring (2017) Rice University: 29-37. https://doi.org/10.25611/m-00056.
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    https://doi.org/10.25611/m-00056
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    Journal article
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    Rice University
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    Spring 2017
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1911/94859
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    This article is licensed under a CC-BY license; copyright remains with the authors.
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
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