Some Notes on Coerced Labor
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 30 (4) , 861-866
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700106758
Abstract
Though Social critics have often spoken of the “wage slavery” associated with modern capitalism, it is more common to believe that coerced labor was banished with the coming of modern standards of civilization. Thus the corvee of ancient China, the feudalism of Western Europe and Japan, and the New World enslavement of blacks in the 17th-19th centuries are seen as products of those earlier and less enlightened ages, mere way stations in the historical evolution of modern day economies.Keywords
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