%0 Journal Article
%T THE COST OF A MAN¡¯S LIFE IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NAPLES: GALLEY ROWERS ON THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
%A Antonio Calabria
%J Essays in Economic & Business History
%D 2004
%I The Economic & Business History Society
%X Convicts made up an important segment of the labor pool in early modern Europe. This essay first focuses on a claim of compensation for the services of convict rowers on a private galley serving in the Naples fleet in the sixteenth century and follows contemporary calculations attempting to determine the ¡°cost¡± of such labor. It then examines the supply side of those relations by analyzing sentences to the galleys from the 1560s to the 1660s.
%U http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/69