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  • CON volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Continuity and Change / Volume 31 / Issue 3 / December 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 December 2016, pp. f1-f2
    Print publication:
    December 2016
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  • The Role of Unfree Labour in Capitalist Development: Spain and Its Empire, Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries*

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  • Fernando Mendiola
  • Journal:
    International Review of Social History / Volume 61 / Issue S24 / December 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 December 2016, pp. 187-211
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  • This article contributes to the debate on the persistence of forced labour within capitalist development. It focuses on Spain, which has been deeply rooted in the global economy, firstly as a colonial metropolis, and later as part of the European Union. In the first place, I analyse the different modalities of unfree labour that are included in the taxonomy established by the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations, taking into account the different political regimes in which they are inserted. Therefore, the legal framework regarding unfree labour is analysed for four different political contexts: liberal revolution with colonial empire (1812–1874); liberal parliamentarism with colonial empire (1874–1936); civil war and fascist dictatorship, with decolonization (1936–1975); and parliamentary democracy within globalization (1975–2014). The article goes on to deal with the importance of the main economic reasons driving the demand for forced labour: relative labour shortage and the search for increasing profits. In the conclusion, and taking the Spanish case as a basis, I suggest a series of challenges for furthering the global debate on the role of forced labour under capitalism.

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