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

Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations: The Long-term Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
17 December 2010
Pages
558
ISBN
9789004188532

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

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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