Economic Sociology & Political Economy (@econsociology.bsky.social)

Between slavery and capitalism: how former slaves and slaveholders constructed a new labor market after the Civil War At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In this new book Between Slavery and Capitalis… https://economicsociology.org/2014/10/02/between-slavery-and-capitalism-the-legacy-of-emancipation-in-the-american-south-explains-how-former-slaves-and-former-slaveholders-navigated-the-construction-of-a-new-model-of-racial-labor-market/