"This is a rigorous academic inquiry into how labor power has been dehumanized and commodified around the world through … markets around the world-from slavery to serfdom, from feudalism to indentured servitude, from guestworker programs to human … the slaveries of the Amerindians and the Africans in the New World in the context of the European colonization; the worlds …

history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to the present day, Wright illustrates …