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Voici un ouvrage qui est le fruit d’un travail collectif auquel participent certains de nos meilleurs chercheurs (Pierre Vernus, Claude Markovits, Claude Chevaleyre) avec des collègues et amis internationaux. Comme dans d'autres entreprises récentes, ma tentative consiste à rassembler autour de quelques points forts une histoire économique et sociale d'aires culturelles différentes.The history of the forms of “free” labour is intimately linked to that of coerced labour. In this book, worldwide acknowledged specialists of Russia, China, Russia, Japan, India, the Indian Ocean, France and Britain show that between the seventeenth and the twentieth century, forms of labour and bondage were defined and practised in reference to each other. Labour relationships found their sources not only in the global circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, but also in market dynamics. Proto-industry, agriculture, trade and manufacturing experienced unprecedented growth throughout Eurasia. Mostly labour-intensive, this long-term growth put considerable pressure on labour resources and contributed to increased coercion and legal constraints on labour mobility in both Asia and Europe.&#160;Table of contentsIntroduction: 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 BosmaChildren 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 in India, Chitra Joshi