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dc.contributor.authorPemantle, Walden
dc.contributor.illustrator Moran, Michael
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-15T13:51:39Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-15T13:51:39Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.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.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/94859
dc.description This paper was written in Dr. Lora Wildenthal's history class, The History of Work (HIST 305).
dc.description.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.
dc.description.sponsorship Rice History Department
dc.format.extent 9 pp
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Rice University
dc.relation.IsPartOfSeries Spring 2017
dc.rights This article is licensed under a CC-BY license; copyright remains with the authors.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.title Free Labor through Marx's Capital
dc.type Journal article
dc.citation.journalTitle Rice Historical Review
dc.citation.volumeNumber 2
dc.citation.issueNumber Spring
dc.identifier.digital Pemantle-RHR-2017-Spring
dc.type.dcmi Text
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/m-00056
dc.citation.firstpage 29
dc.citation.lastpage 37


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