The Ragusan „Maids-of-all-Work“
- Autor(en)
- Juliane Schiel
- Abstrakt
This paper discusses bonded labor relations and their shifts by taking the example of Slavic migrant workers in late medieval Ragusa. Over a period of roughly 150 years, Ragusa shifted from a localised, endemic setting of labor exploitation to a commodified labor market with transregional implications. By evaluating notary deeds and legislative acts, the paper calls for an empirically grounded way of category formation and a careful reconstruction of the Ragusan grammar of social dependency. While labels and classification systems for unskilled Slavic migrants changed over time, they remained the “maids-of-all-work”, i.e. unspecialized laborforce, that could be taken into service for unspecified tasks whereever they were needed.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Journal
- Journal of Global Slavery
- Band
- 5
- Seiten
- 139-169
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 31
- ISSN
- 2405-8351
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00502002
- Publikationsdatum
- 06-2020
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 601008 Geschichtswissenschaft
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- History, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-ragusan-maidsofallwork(387e777f-a09f-4ae0-aafc-2081a21550b5).html