MIGRANT AGRICULTURAL LABORERS IN THE STEPPE GRAINBELT OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA, 1830-1913. (VOLUMES I-IV).
Description:... A major theme is how migrants, employers, nobles, doctors, machine and labor contractors, and professional groups engaged in an on-going struggle over information. Upper class groups spread misinformation; suppressed potential pro-worker information; and tried to control laborers by proposing to collect or actually gathering information through use of passports, work booklets, information bureaus, policing, court investigations, etc. Laborers responded by using hiring markets to exchange information and
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