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The Organization of Serfdom in Eastern Europe: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Robert Millward
Robert Millward
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Professor of Economics, University of Salford, Salford MS 4WT, Great Britain.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 709 - 712
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1983

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References

1 Miliward, Robert, “An Economic Analysis of the Organization of Serfdom in Eastern Europe,” this Journal, 42 (09. 1982), 513–48.Google Scholar

2 Kriedte, Peter, Medick, Hans, and Schlumbohm, Jürgen, Industralizarion Before Industrialization (New York, 1981), p. 20.Google Scholar

3 Millward, Robert, “The Early Stages of lndustnalisation and European Serfdom” (Paper delivered at conference on Economic Organisation in Theory and History, Seattle, Washington, Summer 1983).Google Scholar

4 Fenoaltea, Stefano, “Authority, Efficiency, and Agricultural Organization in Medieval England and Beyond: A Hypothesis,” this Journal, 35 (12. 1975), 712–17.Google Scholar

5 See in particular the discussion in North, Douglass C., Structure and Change in Economic History (New York, 1981).Google Scholar

6 Fenoaltea, “A Comment,” this issue.

7 Ibid.

8 Millward, , “An Economic Analysis,” p. 526.Google Scholar

9 Ibid., p. 526 and top of p. 528.

10 Ibid., p. 528, 538–39.

11 Miliward, “The Early Stages.” Note that in practice each organizational arrangement contains complex mixtures of different elements. There are, for example, cases of labor services specified not in time but in output dimensions—so many sheafs of hay to be mown—so that the quicker this is performed the more time does the serf have for raising his own income. The major characterization of labor services under discussion, however, is that they are associated with work supervision.

12 Barzel, Yoram, “An Economic Analysis of Slavery,” Journal of Law and Economics, 20 (04 1977).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

13 Millward, , “An Economic Analysis,” pp. 538–39.Google Scholar

14 Ibid., pp. 540, 543.