This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor,

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Many works about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argu

Individual case studies explore the artisans' worlds on a more personal level, introducing us to the lives and work of such individuals as William Price Talmage