Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations : The Long-Term Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Marcel van der Linden

ISBN 10: 9004188533 / ISBN 13: 9789004188532

Published by Brill Dez 2010, 2010

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Neuware - In 1807 the British 'Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade' received the Royal Assent. The Act represented the first significant attempt by a Great Power to exert global influence over the development of human rights, and, relatedly, labor conditions worldwide. The essays presented in this book by an international panel of historians and social scientists aim to shed light specifically on the changes which the legal abolition of the slave trade brought about - directly and indirectly - in the labor relations of different regions and continents. The sixteen essays discuss the connected developments in the Americas (Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States), Africa (Cameroon, the Cape Colony, the Belgian Congo) and the Netherlands Indies (Java).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations : The Long-Term Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
• Publisher: Brill Dez 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004188533
• ISBN 13: 9789004188532
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 164H x 38D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 38 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1045 grams

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Synopsis

In 1807 the British “Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade” received the Royal Assent. The Act represented the first significant attempt by a Great Power to exert global influence over the development of human rights, and, relatedly, labor conditions worldwide. The essays presented in this book by an international panel of historians and social scientists aim to shed light specifically on the changes which the legal abolition of the slave trade brought about – directly and indirectly – in the labor relations of different regions and continents. The sixteen essays discuss the connected developments in the Americas (Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States), Africa (Cameroon, the Cape Colony, the Belgian Congo) and the Netherlands Indies (Java).

About the Author

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He has published extensively on labor and working class history including Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Brill, 2008).