The Poverty of Slavery

How Unfree Labor Pollutes the Economy
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-48967-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 4049 g

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates how slaveholders burden communities and governments with the task of maintaining the system while preventing productive individuals from participating in the economy.
Historians, economists, policymakers, and anti-slavery activists need no longer apologize for opposing the dubious benefits of unfree labor. Wright provides a valuable resource for exposing the hidden price tag of slaving to help them pitch antislavery policies as matters of both human rights and economic well-being.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Robert E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Yet Another Half Untold.- 2. Various Degrees of Liberty.- 3. A Not So Peculiar Institution.- 4. Slavery Resilient.- 5. That Which is Seen: Enslavers' Profits.- 6. That Which is Unseen, Part I: Slavery’s Pollution.- 7. That Which is Unseen, Part II: Slavery’s Hidden Costs.- 8. Real Abolition.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert E. Wright is the Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University, USA. He has co/authored or co/edited two dozen books on US economic history and policy, including Corporation Nation, Fubarnomics, and One Nation Under Debt. He has served on the board of Historians Against Slavery, an NGO, since 2012.