Alessandro Stanziani, Ph.D in history, Ph.D in Economics, is full professor at the EHESS and Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Paris). He has published about 100 articles and chapters and four monographies on Russian, European and the Indian Ocean history.Contributors include: Claude Chevaleyre (EHESS, Paris), Claude Markovits (CNRS, Paris), Simon F. Deakin (Cambridge University), Ulbe Bosma (IISG, Amsterdam), Gwyn Campbell (Mcgill University), Mary Louise Nagata (Francis Marion University), Pierre Vernus (University Lyon).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, Seventeenth to Early Twentieth centuries, Alessandro StanzianiPART ONE: JURIDICAL MODELS AND LABOUR DYNAMICSThe Duty to Work: A Comparison of the Common Law and Civil Law Systems from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Simon DeakinDutch Imperial Anxieties About Free Labour, Penal Sanctions and the Right to Strike, Ulbe Bosma Children and Forced Labour in the Indian Ocean World, Circa 1750-1900, Gwyn CampbellPART TWO: DEPENDANCE AND SERVITUDE AT WORK. LOCAL CUSTOMS AND GLOBAL DYNAMICSFactors that Shaped the Organization of Labor and the Labor Market in Tokugawa Japan: Kyoto and Central Japan, Mary Louise NagataContractual Relations, Tariffs and Customs in the Lyon Silk Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Pierre VernusThe Circulation of Commercial Manpower in an Indian Worldwide Trading Network in the Early Twentieth Century, Claude MarkovitsPART THREE: DANGEROUS TIES: STATE, LANDLORDS AND LONGUE DURÉE SERVITUDESConstrained Labour in Early-Modern Rural East-Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Variation and its Causes, Markus CermanRights and Bondage in Russian Serfdom, Alessandro StanzianiActing as Master and Bondservant Considerations on Status Identities and the Nature of “Bond-servitude” in Late Ming China, Claude ChevaleyrePublic Works and the Question of Unfree Labour, Chitra JoshiReferencesIndex

Alessandro Stanziani, Ph.D in history, Ph.D in Economics, is full professor at the EHESS and Senior Researcher at the CNRS (Paris). He has published about 100 articles and chapters and four monographies on Russian, European and the Indian Ocean history.Contributors include: Claude Chevaleyre (EHESS, Paris), Claude Markovits (CNRS, Paris), Simon F. Deakin (Cambridge University), Ulbe Bosma (IISG, Amsterdam), Gwyn Campbell (Mcgill University), Mary Louise Nagata (Francis Marion University), Pierre Vernus (University Lyon).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, Seventeenth to Early Twentieth centuries, Alessandro StanzianiPART ONE: JURIDICAL MODELS AND LABOUR DYNAMICSThe Duty to Work: A Comparison of the Common Law and Civil Law Systems from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Simon DeakinDutch Imperial Anxieties About Free Labour, Penal Sanctions and the Right to Strike, Ulbe Bosma Children and Forced Labour in the Indian Ocean World, Circa 1750-1900, Gwyn CampbellPART TWO: DEPENDANCE AND SERVITUDE AT WORK. LOCAL CUSTOMS AND GLOBAL DYNAMICSFactors that Shaped the Organization of Labor and the Labor Market in Tokugawa Japan: Kyoto and Central Japan, Mary Louise NagataContractual Relations, Tariffs and Customs in the Lyon Silk Industry in the Nineteenth Century, Pierre VernusThe Circulation of Commercial Manpower in an Indian Worldwide Trading Network in the Early Twentieth Century, Claude MarkovitsPART THREE: DANGEROUS TIES: STATE, LANDLORDS AND LONGUE DURÉE SERVITUDESConstrained Labour in Early-Modern Rural East-Central and Eastern Europe: Regional Variation and its Causes, Markus CermanRights and Bondage in Russian Serfdom, Alessandro StanzianiActing as Master and Bondservant Considerations on Status Identities and the Nature of “Bond-servitude” in Late Ming China, Claude ChevaleyrePublic Works and the Question of Unfree Labour, Chitra JoshiReferencesIndex