title: 2 Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia
abstract: ChaPter 2 poor laws, management, and laBor Control In russIa and BrItaIn, or the hIstory of the Bentham Brothers In russIa Between 1780 and 1787, the brothers Samuel and Jeremy Bentham were managers of a large Russian estate owned by Prince Grigorii Potemkin, one of the closest advisors of Catherine II.In doing so they faced two related-but distinct-problems: Russian peasants were unskilled, and British skilled workers and supervisors, who had been brought in to work on the estate, were hard to 
journal: Berghahn Books