Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations

Download or read book Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807 the British “Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade” received the Royal Assent. The Act represented the first significant attempt by a Great Power to exert global influence over the development of human rights, and, relatedly, labor conditions worldwide. The essays presented in this book by an international panel of historians and social scientists aim to shed light specifically on the changes which the legal abolition of the slave trade brought about – directly and indirectly – in the labor relations of different regions and continents. The sixteen essays discuss the connected developments in the Americas (Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States), Africa (Cameroon, the Cape Colony, the Belgian Congo) and the Netherlands Indies (Java).