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Punishing Workers, Managing Labour

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(UGent) , Christian de Vito and Adam Fagbore
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Abstract
What is the historical role of punishment in the management of labour? This is the central question of this Special Issue. In order to answer this question, the contributors look into the histories of blinded slaves in ancient Mesopotamia, flogged peasant farmers in pharaonic Egypt, convict officers in the prisons of colonial India, and blacklisted factory workers in the nineteenth-century United States, as well as rural workers in the medieval Frankish kingdoms, soldiers and domestic servants in early modern Scandinavia, working children in colonial Bolivia, textile workers in Lombardy, enslaved Africans in Brazil and the US, and household workers in Late Imperial China. The introduction suggests ways to compare the role of punishment in the management of labour across space and time. The editors claim that the effective management of labour required the systematic differentiation of the workforce; to that end, the imposition of diversified forms of punishment did not merely reflect existing labour distinctions, but also contributed to their creation.
Keywords
Social Sciences (miscellaneous), History

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MLA
Vanhaute, Eric, et al., editors. “Punishing Workers, Managing Labour.” International Review of Social History, vol. 68, no. S31, Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023, doi:10.1017/s0020859023000238.
APA
Vanhaute, E., de Vito, C., & Fagbore, A. (Eds.). (2023). Punishing Workers, Managing Labour. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000238
Chicago author-date
Vanhaute, Eric, Christian de Vito, and Adam Fagbore, eds. 2023. “Punishing Workers, Managing Labour.” International Review of Social History. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000238.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
Vanhaute, Eric, Christian de Vito, and Adam Fagbore, eds. 2023. “Punishing Workers, Managing Labour.” International Review of Social History. Cambridge University Press (CUP). doi:10.1017/s0020859023000238.
Vancouver
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Vanhaute E, de Vito C, Fagbore A, editors. Punishing Workers, Managing Labour. Vol. 68, International Review of Social History. Cambridge University Press (CUP); 2023.
IEEE
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E. Vanhaute, C. de Vito, and A. Fagbore, Eds., “Punishing Workers, Managing Labour,” International Review of Social History, vol. 68, no. S31. Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023.
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in pharaonic Egypt, convict officers in the prisons of
colonial India, and blacklisted factory workers in the
nineteenth-century United States, as well as rural
workers in the medieval Frankish kingdoms, soldiers
and domestic servants in early modern Scandinavia,
working children in colonial Bolivia, textile workers
in Lombardy, enslaved Africans in Brazil and the US,
and household workers in Late Imperial China. The
introduction suggests ways to compare the role of
punishment in the management of labour across
space and time. The editors claim that the effective
management of labour required the systematic
differentiation of the workforce; to that end, the
imposition of diversified forms of punishment did not
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