Global Histories Of Work

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110437201

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Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424706

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Christian G. De Vito,Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319584904

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Micro-Spatial Histories of Global Labour by Christian G. De Vito,Anne Gerritsen Pdf

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers’ own agency and social networks. The individual chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone, through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman empire and Spain. The result is a highly readable volume that addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in historiography. Chapter 7 is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110434460

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Global Histories of Work by Andreas Eckert Pdf

First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.

Author : Josef Ehmer,Carola Lentz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111147963

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Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History by Josef Ehmer,Carola Lentz Pdf

This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall growing working life course instability, since the 1970s. For unindustrialized or industrializing regions, from West Africa to state socialist East Central Europe, as well as for transnational and transcontinental labour migrations, it shows the enormous influence of the extended family and wider kin on individual pathways into and out of work. For early modern Europe, India, and China, and up to twentieth-century state socialism and to current welfare states, it stresses and concretizes the crucial impact of age and gender for both societal labour relations and individual work-related decision making. With all chapters based on original research, the volume reflects a close cooperation between historians, anthropologists, and sociologists. Its multidisciplinary approach finds expression in its methodological plurality, reaching from archival research and sophisticated statistical analyses to biographical interviews and participant observation. This mix allows to grasp the interaction between societal change and individual agency.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442844

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Workers of the World by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004280144

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Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers by Anonim Pdf

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.

Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039115766

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Global Labour History by Jan Lucassen Pdf

Part I: Historiography Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope 39 Jan Lucassen African Labor History 91 Frederick Cooper Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa 117 Zachary Lockman Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia 147 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance 161 Akira Suzuki Fin-de-Si6cle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition 195 Bryan D. Palmer Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 227 Dick Geary The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions 289 John D. French What's in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania 335 Lucy Taksa Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China 373 Arif Dirlik The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia 397 Andrei Sokolov Part 2: Case Studies in Comparative Labour History Worldwide Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective 455 Prasannan Parthasarathi Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections 479 Ratna Saptari Brickmakers in Western Europe (17oo00-19oo) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons 513 Jan Lucassen Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts 573 Ian Phimister "Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth": Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 591 Lex Heerma van Voss Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns 623 Shelton Stromquist.

Author : Michael J. F. Suarez,H. R. Woudhuysen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191668753

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The Book by Michael J. F. Suarez,H. R. Woudhuysen Pdf

A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such as writing systems, the ancient and the medieval book, and the economics of print, as well as 33 regional and national histories of 'the book', offering a truly global survey of the book around the world, the Oxford History of the Book is the most comprehensive work of its kind. The three new articles, specially commissioned for this spin-off, cover censorship, copyright and intellectual property, and book history in the Caribbean and Bermuda. All essays are illustrated throughout with reproductions, diagrams, and examples of various typographical features. Beautifully produced and hugely informative, this is a must-have for anyone with an interest in book history and the written word.

Author : Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110424592

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Handbook Global History of Work by Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester Pdf

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110424584

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Handbook Global History of Work by Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.

Author : Gareth Austin,Kaoru Sugihara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135079826

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Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History by Gareth Austin,Kaoru Sugihara Pdf

The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take for a further diffusion of industrialization, which might respond to the rising expectations of living standards without catastrophic environmental degradation.

Author : Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319564456

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Working for Oil by Touraj Atabaki,Elisabetta Bini,Kaveh Ehsani Pdf

This volume examines the social history of oil workers and investigates how labor relations have shaped the global oil industry during the twentieth century and today. It brings together the work of scholars from a range of disciplines, approaching the social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of oil. The contributors analyze a number of key oil producing regions, including the Americas, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Europe and Africa.

Author : Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110428350

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Handbook Global History of Work by Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester Pdf

Author : Sebastian Conrad
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691178196

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What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad Pdf

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline of global history has emerged as the most dynamic and innovative field in history—one that takes the connectedness of the world as its point of departure, and that poses a fundamental challenge to the premises and methods of history as we know it. What Is Global History? provides a comprehensive overview of this exciting new approach to history. The book addresses some of the biggest questions the discipline will face in the twenty-first century: How does global history differ from other interpretations of world history? How do we write a global history that is not Eurocentric yet does not fall into the trap of creating new centrisms? How can historians compare different societies and establish compatibility across space? What are the politics of global history? This in-depth and accessible book also explores the limits of the new paradigm and even its dangers, the question of whom global history should be written for, and much more. Written by a leading expert in the field, What Is Global History? shows how, by understanding the world's past as an integrated whole, historians can remap the terrain of their discipline for our globalized present.