HIS 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Encomienda, Wage Labour, Russia-2

• School: St. John's University
• Department: HIS - HISTORY
• Course: HIS 1001
• Professor: Mauricio Borrero

Document Summary

Lecture 4: bridging world history unit 14 land and labor. In the pre-industrial world, the relationship between land and labor was the basis of the economy and determined wealth, power, comfort, and security. How different societies constructed this relationship was shaped by the physical environments people lived in and by the political, social, and cultural traditions of the area. Societies around the world developed a wide variety of systems of labor to deal with problems of land and labor, including serfdom, corvee labor, wage labor, and slavery. Many complex societies depended on unpaid labor to build roads or produce goods. Power was determined by how much labor leaders of societies could control. Slavery didn"t endure in much of europe, but it began to flourish in other parts of the world. Abundant land and limited labor in post-1500"s americas led europeans to search elsewhere for labor and to embellish/expand existing forms of forced labor for their own capitalist endeavors.