Slavery As An Industrial System by Herman Jeremias Nieboer
Ethnological Researches
This comparative study examines slavery as an economic institution shaped by material conditions, arguing it tends to arise where land is abundant and labor is scarce and recedes when those conditions reverse. Surveying ethnological and historical cases, it analyzes the costs of coercion and supervision, the supply of enslaved labor through warfare and capture, and the relative efficiency of slave versus free labor. It explains shifts to serfdom or wage labor as pragmatic adaptations to changing economic incentives rather than moral progress.
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- Published
- 1900
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 400-500
- Original Language
- English
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