A Cartography of Invisible Lives

A Cartography of Invisible Lives

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Slave trade and slavery can be looked at as the first instance of the organization on a global scale of a mobile, racialized and gendered workforce that disrupted social and cultural categories of “free” and “unfree” labor, gender, sexuality and race. Looking at the long history of the entanglement...

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Main Author: Françoise Vergès
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: James Cook University 2015-08-01
Series:eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
Subjects:
slave trade
slavery
labour
gender
sexuality
race
human trafficking
enslavement
post-fordism
divisions of labour
tropics
africa
caribbean
colonial
europe
americas
Online Access:https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3378/3318
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Summary:Slave trade and slavery can be looked at as the first instance of the organization on a global scale of a mobile, racialized and gendered workforce that disrupted social and cultural categories of “free” and “unfree” labor, gender, sexuality and race. Looking at the long history of the entanglement between free and bonded labour renews our understanding of why trafficking human bodies and enslavement coexist alongside the post-Fordist organization of international divisions of labor.
ISSN:1448-2940

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