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de Alessandro Stanziani, New York- Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2014,  268 p.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 twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor and shows that Russian peasants were much less bound and “unfree” than usually held.  On the other hand,  in most “Western” countries labor was similar to service, and wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, not only under slavery, but also afterwards in forms of indenture labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa. The author shows that unfree labor and forms of economic coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism, proven by the consistent economic growth took place all over Eurasia between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century.This growth was labor intensive: proto-industrial and commercial expansion, agriculture transformation and the first industrial revolution required more labor not less.  This world did not collapse after the French revolution or the British industrial revolution, but instead between 1870 and 1914, with the second industrial revolution and the rise of the welfare state.&#160;Alessandro Stanziani - Bondage. Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth Through the Early Twentieth Century. New York – Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2014,  268 p. Prix : 95$Table of contentsIntroduction. 3The Scope and Main Argument of this Book. 3The Legal Status and Rights of Labor in Russia and Europe. 5Serfdom in a Comparative Perspective. 12Global, Local, Imperial: Scales of Analysis. 19Part I Bondage Imagined. 22Chapter 1 Second Serfdom and Wage-Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. 22The Eighteenth Century: Forced Labor between Reform and Revolution. 22The Enlightenment and Serfdom in Russia. 27The Proletarians are the Real Serfs: Utopian Socialism, Christian Socialism, and Radical Thought 33Conclusion. 38Chapter 2 Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia. 40A Global History of Labor Control: The Case of the Bentham Brothers in Russia. 40Estate Organization in Russia: Instruktsiia, or How to Supervise the Supervisor 43Controlling Labor: Paupers and Servants in Britain. 48The Fate of Bentham’s Panopticon: Labor Organization in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Russia. 52Conclusion. 57Part II: The Architecture of Bondage. Slaves and Serfs in Central Asia and Russia. 59Chapter 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century. 59Introduction. 59Kholopy: Slaves, Serfs, or Indentured Servants?. 65War Captives at a Crossroads of Empires. 75a) Central Asian Slaves for the Mediterranean, from the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Century. 75b) The Indian Network, from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century. 78c) Khanates, Nomads, and Russia, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. 82Slavery in Central Eurasia: its Estimation and Overall Interpretation. 92Chapter 4. The Institutions of Serfdom.. 97Property Rules and the Legal Status of Russian Peasantry. 98Changing Legal Status: Administrative Procedure or Court Proceedings. 107Peasants in Town. 113Conclusion: Legal Status and Economic Dynamism in Imperial Russia. 120Chapter 5 Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates. 122Introduction. 122ProtoIindustry, Trade, and Growth in the Eighteenth Century. 124From Peasant-Masters to Peasant-Workers? (1800-1861) 129Toward a Reassessment of Second Serfdom in Eastern Europe. 135Part III. Old Bondage, New Practices. A Comparative View. Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean Worlds. 140Chapter 6. The Persistent Servant: Labor, Rules, and Social Hierarchies in France and Britain from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. 140Labor Constraints in England. 142A French Exception?. 156Conclusion. 163Chapter 7. Bondage across the Ocean. Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean. 169The Main Argument 169Forms of Bondage in the Indian Ocean. 171Forced Migration Across the Oceans: Convicts. 175The Invention of Engagisme. 178Engagés from Asia and Africa in the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 180Engagisme after Slavery. 184From Servants to Indentured Immigrants: The Case of Mauritius. 191Toward a New World?. 196General Conclusion: The Collapse and Resurgence of Bondage. 199Collective Bargaining and the “New” Labor Contract in Western Countries. 203Population, Migration, and Labor, 1870-1914. 207Russian Growth: From Serfdom to Bondage?. 211&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;