Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei

Seth Rockman

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Der alte und der neue Materialismus in der Geschichte der Sklaverei

Seth Rockman

Volume 5 in the series Re:work Lectures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110749137

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Ever since W.E.B. du Bois conceptualized slaves’ self-emancipation during the U.S. Civil War as a "general strike," the language of labor history has informed scholarly understandings of slavery. While the analogy of the plantation to the factory has its obvious limitations, historians have understood slaves and slaveholders as engaged in recognizable struggles over the speed of work, the ownership of time and expertise, and the informal rights and privileges that governed the labor process. However, an older materialist history rooted in marxist categories has not always succeeded in capturing the dynamics of racial dominance and human commodification at the heart of the American slave system. A "new history of capitalism" has offered one remedy, namely to embed slavery firmly within a capitalist mode of production whose investment in "free" labor was always more rhetorical than real. A different response may now be emerging through what scholars call "the new materialism"—an approach organized around human/non-human entanglements and drawing on recent theoretical work on things, networks, and assemblages. This talk considers the implications of this "new materialism" for the history of slavery, and by extension, for the field of labor history more generally.

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Seth Rockman, Brown University, Providence, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Arbeit global – historische Rundgänge Publicly Available Download PDF	V
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Einleitung Andreas Eckert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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„Leisten wir bessere Arbeit, wenn wir zu einem gewissen Grad mit der Tätigkeit vertraut sind, über die wir eigentlich sprechen? … Ich glaube nicht, dass es unsere Arbeit schlechter macht“ Ein Interview mit Seth Rockman Felicitas Hentschke and Nitin Varma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars and students of labor history and social sciences
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 48
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Slavery; Colonialism; Work; Capitalism; Materialism

eBook

Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110749137

Paperback

Published: November 22, 2021
ISBN: 9783110748963