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Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world's prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth cent

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twenti

Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case stud

From the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro was home to the largest urban population of enslaved wor

In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrializat