The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US
economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists …

Scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of modern slavery in the management
literature. This article redresses this by identifying modern slavery as a management …

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably
was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial …

Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told
that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new …

Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association CLR James Award Seen as a pioneering
figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes …

Despite the vast expansion of global markets during the last half of the twentieth century,
social science still most often examines and measures inequality and social mobility within …

Abstract The “New History of Capitalism” grounds the rise of industrial capitalism on the
production of raw cotton by American slaves. Recent works include Sven Beckert's Empire of …

Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation's past dependence
on slave labor was important for its subsequent economic development (Engerman and …

Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were
higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the …

The nullification of slave wealth after the US Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the largest
episodes of wealth compression in history. We document that White Southern households …