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Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy (World Social Change)

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In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery’s integral role within the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy in the course of the “prism of slavery.” Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions in regards to the nexus between slavery and the world economy. The writer explores how particular slave systems were suffering from their integration into the world market, the international division of labor, and the interstate system. He further examines the ways in which the precise “local” histories of such slave regimes remove darkness from processes of world economic change. His deft use of specific New World examples of slave production as local sites of global transformation highlights the influence of specific geographies and local agency in shaping different slave zones. Tomich’s cogent analysis of the struggles over the organization of work and labor discipline within the French West Indian colony of Martinique vividly illustrates the ways in which daily resistance altered the connection between master and slave, precipitated crises in sugar cultivation, and created the local conditions for the transition to a post-slavery economy and society.

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