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

The sixteen essays in this collection discuss the direct and indirect impact of the British Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807) on labor relations in the Americas, Africa and South East Asia.

About the author

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He has published extensively on labor and working class history including Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Brill, 2008).

Product details

• Assisted by: Marcel van der Linden (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2010
• EAN: 9789004188532
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18853-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 246 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 1045 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics