Unfree labor : American slavery and Russian serfdom
Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems. He theorizes that while southern states in the U.S. existed as slaveowner's communities, the rural Russian communal landcape was severely influenced by the bargaining power of peasant bondsmen
Print Book, English, 1987
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987
Cross-cultural studies
xiv, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780674920972, 9780674920989, 067492097X, 0674920988
13792003
The masters and their bondsmen
Labor management
Planters, Pomeshchiki, and paternalism
Ideals and ideology
The bondsmen and their masters
Community and culture
Patterns of resistance
Protest, unity, and disunity
Crisis of unfree labor
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