history of technology
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From Corvée to Wage Labor: Hybrid Labor Regimes in Egypt’s Sugar Industry, 1870s
Amr Khary, CASAS’ member has published this article in the International Labor and Working-Class History journal. Abstract: This article examines the large and modern sugar factories established in Egypt in the 1870s as multi-phased production sites that combined coerced peasant labor with the deployment of state of the art steam technology. These factories possessed the…