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Roman slavery in Sicily was vastly economically profitable. As was semi-slave relations in Roman Egypt, or slavery in Roman mines. Unfree labour in capitalism has been profitable (but below the prevai …

Australian cattle industry was part of the frontier wars and settler process. It was a capital intensive form of guerilla and economic warfare, and was backed by massive state-capital apparatuses in …

An important concept here is "alienated wage labour." That is labour that is performed for someone else for a wage. A wage can be money, or goods, or food. But the wage relationship is focused on " …

The labouring man will take his rest long in the morning; a good piece of the day is spent afore he come at his work; then he must have his breakfast, though he have not earned it at his accustomed h …

The general strike in October-November 1956 Hungary was total in the sense that the strike committee (Central Workers Council Greater Budapest & constituent federative bodies) authorised the continued …

Yes, in 1978, for a five day wildcat. 125 workers were sacked. http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/social/industries/labor/disputes/78postal.htm

Indentured servants were subject to a contract, which was generally on-sellable. ( http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/09/11/buying-and-selling-servants/comment-page-1/ ) With sun …

Mechanization. Work songs are a method to regulate joint or several labour. In joint labour it allows all labourers to pull together. In both joint and several labour it allows the labourers to regul …

Hacker culture didn't exist in the 1970s: a variety of hacker cultures existed: see the Jargon file's regional specific entries. Since the 1970s hacker culture unified, generated its imaginary other ( …

Answering in terms of western Europe after 1200CE: What did farmers use for boots? Farmers are large field agriculturalists created by the British enclosures and revolutions, and by the French and l …

There's a general thesis, called "Fordism" which contains a two pronged argument on a global phenomena in the advanced capitalist societies: Employers in specific wanted higher quality and stable lab …

Meats supplied for domestic consumption through the US supermarket system are either processed or pre-cut. This contrasts with other food cultures where meat is supplied as whole animals, or slaughte …

The mass internal accounting structures which developed with modern firms in the 1930s and 1940s disrupted small manufacture, and radically changed the pool of accounting profession and labour opportu …

Reading Hammond and Hammond (1919) The Skilled labourer I came across the expression of £10% in the quoted primary sources, ie, at 34: The Duke of Northumberland wrote to the H.O. on May 26 that work …

No. As EP Thompson admirably demonstrates in Making of the English Working Class, the proletariat was already in existence in Britain and Ireland at the peak of the enclosures in a "pre-factory" syst …