Global Labour History

Author : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : 455 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004336391

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On the Road to Global Labour History by Anonim Pdf

Global Labour History has firmly established itself in the past three decades. This anthology provides an overview of the conceptual aspects of the discipline and is underpinned by case and field studies from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and China. It is dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the doyen of, and networker for, Global Labour History.

Author : Stefano Bellucci,Andreas Eckert
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847012180

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General Labour History of Africa by Stefano Bellucci,Andreas Eckert Pdf

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Daniel Maul
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110646665

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The International Labour Organization by Daniel Maul Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive account of the International Labour Organization’s 100-year history. At its heart is the concept of global social policy, which encompasses not only social policy in its national and international dimensions, but also development policy, world trade, international migration and human rights. The book focuses on the ILO’s roles as a key player in debates on poverty, social justice, wealth distribution and social mobility subjects and as a global forum for addressing these issues. The study puts in perspective the manifold ways in which the ILO has helped structure these debates and has made – through its standard-setting, technical cooperation and myriad other activities – practical contributions to the world of work and to global social policy.

Author : Christian G. De Vito,Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Globalization
ISBN : OCLC:492906232

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Global Labour History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leda Papastefanaki,M. Erdem Kabadayı
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789206975

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Working in Greece and Turkey by Leda Papastefanaki,M. Erdem Kabadayı Pdf

As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national borders to investigate their intricately interrelated histories. The studies in Working in Greece and Turkey provide an overdue exploration of labour history on both sides of the Aegean, before as well as after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Deploying the approaches of global labour history as a framework, this volume presents transnational, transcontinental, and diachronic comparisons that illuminate the shared history of Greece and Turkey.

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110437201

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Global Histories of Work by Andreas Eckert Pdf

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 : Gareth Austin,Kaoru Sugihara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262995

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The Story of Work by Jan Lucassen Pdf

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity’s busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today’s gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004231351

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Beyond Marx by Anonim Pdf

What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? The twenty historical and theoretical essays in this volume discuss this question.

Author : A. Kaur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230511132

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Wage Labour in Southeast Asia Since 1840 by A. Kaur Pdf

Amarjit Kaur examines wage labour's role in economic growth and change in Southeast Asia since 1840. Her study focuses on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to shape labour systems. There are five main themes - labour processes, migration and labour systems; labour circulation or mobility; the gendered nature of labour relations; and, class consciousness, worker organization and labour standards. A wide-ranging study which will be of great interest to historians, economists and Asia specialists.