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task system: a standalone construct

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Social history

a form of plantation labor organization that set enslaved workers a daily quota after which their time was their own, contrasted with gang labor.

In social history, task system refers to a form of plantation labor organization that set enslaved workers a daily quota after which their time was their own, contrasted with gang labor. This meaning comes from Morgan (1982) in The William and Mary Quarterly.[1]

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References

Morgan, P. D. (1982). Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880. The William and Mary Quarterly, 39(4), 563. https://doi.org/10.2307/1919004

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