Through the prism of slavery : labor, capital, and world economy

Author(s)

• Tomich, Dale W.

Bibliographic Information

Through the prism of slavery : labor, capital, and world economy

Dale W. Tomich

（World social change）

Rowman & Littlefield, c2004

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-201) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy through the "prism of slavery." Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy. The author explores how particular slave systems were affected by their integration into the world market, the international division of labor, and the interstate system. He further examines the ways that the particular "local" histories of such slave regimes illuminate processes of world economic change. His deft use of specific New World examples of slave production as local sites of global transformation highlights the influence of specific geographies and local agency in shaping different slave zones. Tomich's cogent analysis of the struggles over the organization of work and labor discipline in the French West Indian colony of Martinique vividly illustrates the ways that day-to-day resistance altered the relationship between master and slave, precipitated crises in sugar cultivation, and created the local conditions for the transition to a post-slavery economy and society.

Table of Contents

Part I: Slavery in the World Economy Chapter 1: Capitalism, Slavery, and World Economy: Historical Theory and Theoretical History Chapter 2: World of Capital, Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective Chapter 3: The "Second Slavery": Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy Part II: The Global in the Local Chapter 4: World Slavery and Caribbean Capitalism: The Cuban Sugar Industry, 1760-1868 Chapter 5: Spaces of Slavery: Times of Freedom-Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective Chapter 6: Small Islands and Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, and Capitalist Modernity Part III: Work, Time, and Resistance: Shifting the Terms of Confrontation Chapter 7: White Days, Black Days: The Working Day and the Crisis of Slavery in the French Caribbean Chapter 8: Une Petite Guinee: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique-Integration, Adaptation, and Appropriation Chapter 9: Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds, and the Reconstitution of Labor in Postemancipation Martinique

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA65320689
• ISBN:
  • 074252938X
  • 0742529398
• LCCN: 2003013079
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lanham
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 210 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD4865.C27
  • DC21 : 331.11/734/0972909034
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Slave labor -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Sugarcane industry -- Caribbean Area -- History
  • LCSH : Slave labor -- History -- 19th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA51082061