Households as Coercive Labour Regimes

The conference will explore coercive labour regimes through the lens of the household. We define the household as primarily composed of its head and everyone within this unit enjoying the patronage of the head. Kinship relations are considered to be secondary, as members of the household head’s family were usually but not always included in the household.

During the conference, we would like to concentrate our attention to larger household organizations, including the private households of the military, political and economic elites, but also, for example, plantations, private companies, haciendas and estates.

The conference is organized by Stephan Conermann, Karin Hofmeester, Ulbe Bosma and Matthias van Rossum.

See for the programme the pdf below