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Titas Chakraborty

Associate Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Books


Empire of labor: How the East India company colonized hired work

Book · March 4, 2025 Empire of Labor tells the story of how hired workers experienced and responded to the rise to power over the long eighteenth century of the English East India Company (EIC), which perennially hired thousands of people in and around its settlements in Benga ... Cite

A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850

Book · January 1, 2019 During global capitalism’s long ascent from 1600-1850, workers of all kinds-slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors-repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaway ... Cite