The study of the issue of forced labor in colonial implies unequivocally system analysis of colonial violence itself, as a whole systemic and structural. Indeed these colonial systems, implementing, and despite labor reforms that marked the evolution of the colonial empires after the Second World War, were based on philosophies that although seemingly different, had the primary objective to best effect the colonies and make them profitable for the benefit exclusive of the metropolitan economy. In the pages that follow, we intend to examine how the French colonial system when compared with his British counterpart, and also the Belgian structured system of violence that served as a functional basis for the forced surrender and could articulate so efficient with the colonial economic goals. In this context, we seek to comparatively analyze the political economy of violence that characterized the labor system in the colonies generally.
european colonialism; labor system; violence; Congo