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Unfreedom and Capitalism: Online Workshop on Economic Contributions of Slavery and Indenture
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This workhop will bring together Economists and Historians who work in the area of unfreedom and unfree labour within the context of colonialism. The research presented will be within the three following themes: 1) Political Economy of Unfreedom, 2) Labour Market Realities and Conditions of Work and 3) Contribution of Unfree Labour to Capitalist Development.
Programme:
Morning Sessions
Opening Keynote: London (BST 09:00-10:00), Cape Town (SAST 10:00-11:00), Munich (CEST 10:00-11:00), New Delhi (IST: 13:30-14:30)
Speaker: Malik Al Nasir, Liverpool based local historian, performance poet and PhD scholar at University of Cambridge
Chair: Samita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge
Title: How The Slave Business Became a Bank – A Case Study of Sandbach Tinne and The Bank Of Liverpool
Session 1: London (BST 10:00-11:30), Cape Town (SAST 11:00-12:30), Munich (CEST 11:00-12:30), New Delhi (IST: 14:30-16:00)
Seaker 1: Aaron Graham, University of Oxford,
The violence inherent in the system? Unfreedom, ‘war capitalism’ and Jamaica, 1750-1850
Speaker 2: Johan Fourie, Stellenbosch University
Big Data in Colonial History: Building an annual panel of households across seven decades
Co-authored with: Erik Green (Lund), Auke Rijpma (Utrecht) and Dieter von Fintel (Stellenbosch)
Session 2: London (11:45-13:15), Cape Town (SAST 12:45-14:15), Munich (CEST 12:45-14:15), New Delhi (IST: 16:15-17:45)
Speaker 3: Kara Dimitruk, Stellenbosch University
Labor Markets and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Speaker 4: Jenna Marshall, University of Kassel
Recasting Lewis’ labour-surplus model and the limits of intellectual inheritance.
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Session 3: London (BST 14:00-15:30), Kingston (EST 08:00-09:30), George Town Guyana (GYT 09:00-10:30), New York (09:00-10:30), Cape Town (15:00-16:30), Munich (15:00-16:30), New Delhi (18:30-20:00)
Speaker 5: Neha Hui, University of Reading
Between unfreedoms: Caste identity and Repatriation of Indentured Labour Migrants
Speaker 6: Samita Sen, University of Cambridge
Indenture and Intermediation: Assam Tea Industry, 1830-1930
Session 4: London (15:45-17:15), Kingston (EST 09:45-11:15), George Town Guyana (GYT 10:45-12:15), New York (10:45-12:!5), Cape Town (16:45-18:15), Munich (16:45-18:15), New Delhi (20:15-21:45)
Speaker 7: Partha Pratim Shil, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Title: Wages of Servitude: Village chaukidars and security labour in colonial Bengal
Speaker 8: Belinda Archibong, Columbia University
Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Closing Keynote: London (17:15-18:15), Kingston (EST 11:15-12:15), George Town Guyana (GYT 12:15-13:15), New York (12:15-13:15), Cape Town (18:15-19:15), Munich (18:15-19:15), New Delhi (21:45-22:45)
Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Professor of Econonomics, Columbia University
Chair: Uma Kambhampati, Professor of Economics, University of Reading
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