Handbook Global History Of Work

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Marcel van der Linden,Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : 44,6 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 : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Jan Lucassen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Marcel Van Der Linden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474297315

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The Global History of Work by Marcel Van Der Linden Pdf

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Patricia D'Antonio,Julie A. Fairman,Jean C. Whelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781135049744

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Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing NIP by Patricia D'Antonio,Julie A. Fairman,Jean C. Whelan Pdf

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! 2014 winner of the American Association for the History of Nursing’s Mary M. Roberts Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing! The Routledge Handbook on the Global History of Nursing brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the art and science of nursing history, as a generation of researchers turn to the history of nursing with new paradigms and methodological tools. Inviting readers to consider new understandings of the historical work and worth of nursing in a larger global context, this ground-breaking volume illuminates how research into the history of nursing moves us away from a reductionist focus on diseases and treatments and towards more inclusive ideas about the experiences of illnesses on individuals, families, communities, voluntary organizations, and states at the bedside and across the globe. An extended introduction by the editors provides an overview and analyzes the key themes involved in the transmission of ideas about the care of the sick. Organized into four parts, and addressing nursing around the globe, it covers: New directions in the history of nursing; New methodological approaches; The politics of nursing knowledge; Nursing and its relationship to social practice. Exploring themes of people, practice, politics and places, this cutting edge volume brings together the best of nursing history scholarship, and is a vital reference for all researchers in the field, and is also relevant to those studying on nursing history and health policy courses.

Author : Josef Ehmer,Carola Lentz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 3111145905

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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 : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Division of labor
ISBN : OCLC:1102596647

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The Global History of Work: Work and workers in context by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

The Global History of Work: Critical Readings provides an extensive reference collection which is essential for all students and scholars needing to gain a critical understanding of work and the history of work. Collating scholarly historical texts on the subject from the last 50 years and beyond from a wide range of sources, this four-volume set offers a key knowledge resource for the field. The set brings together around 60 essays and papers - from the field-shaping pieces published in the 1970s through to the landmark texts of the recent past and present - and thematically arranges in a way that highlights the crucial topics of discussion and debate in this area of study. The set obviously has a global scope and provides valuable insights into how the field was formed, how it has developed and how it will be studied in the years to come. Volume 1 explores core concepts to do with work and work history and examines definitions, perceptions and the `making of workers'. Volume 2 focuses on work sites, with an emphasis on locations, migrations and households. Volume 3 considers labour markets and includes material on unemployment, gender and ethnicity, sociability/social networks and recent trends. Volume 4 covers collective action and the importance of the politics of labour, unions and forms of resistance. Each volume includes a substantial contextualizing introduction surveying the development of the field.

Author : Anna Delius
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110768947

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Working on Rights by Anna Delius Pdf

This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the light of a globally dynamic human rights discourse. The study argues that the democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland were both variants of emancipatory and democracy-oriented social movements with global interconnections that emerged in the 1960s. It reveals that the demands for free and independent trade unions, which in both countries became a flashpoint in the fight for broader democratic demands, was not always discussed in rights terms, but rather presented as an inevitable necessity. At the same time, these labor movements and their intellectual allies morally delegitimized state repression against workers and thereby employed the concepts of democracy, participation, solidarity, progress and eventually, rights. Integrating the history of two European semi-peripheric societies into a broader narrative, this book is relevant for readers interested in global labor history, human rights history and the history of democratization in Europe in the late twentieth century.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800084551

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The World Wide Web of Work by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the broad perspective and the effort to perceive connections between global trends over time in work and labour relations, incorporating slaves, indentured labourers and sharecroppers, housewives and domestic servants. Casting this sweeping analytical gaze, The World Wide Web of Work discusses the core concepts ‘capitalism’ and ‘workers’, and refines notions such as ‘coerced labour’, ‘household strategies’ and ‘labour markets’. It explores in new ways the connections between labourers in different parts of the world, arguing that both ‘globalisation’ and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South and were only later introduced in Northern industrial settings. It reveals that 19th-century chattel slavery was frequently replaced by other forms of coerced labour, and it reconstructs the laborious 20th-century attempts of the International Labour Organisation to regulate labour standards supra-nationally. The book also pays attention to the relational inequality through which workers in wealthy countries benefit from the exploitation of those in poor countries. The final part addresses workers’ resistance and acquiescence: why collective actions often have unanticipated consequences; why and how workers sometimes organise massive flights from exploitation and oppression; and why ‘proletarian revolutions’ took place in pre-industrial or industrialising countries and never in fully developed capitalist societies.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Division of labor
ISBN : OCLC:1040471514

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The Global History of Work: Work sites by Marcel van der Linden Pdf

The Global History of Work: Critical Readings provides an extensive reference collection which is essential for all students and scholars needing to gain a critical understanding of work and the history of work. Collating scholarly historical texts on the subject from the last 50 years and beyond from a wide range of sources, this four-volume set offers a key knowledge resource for the field. The set brings together around 60 essays and papers - from the field-shaping pieces published in the 1970s through to the landmark texts of the recent past and present - and thematically arranges in a way that highlights the crucial topics of discussion and debate in this area of study. The set obviously has a global scope and provides valuable insights into how the field was formed, how it has developed and how it will be studied in the years to come. Volume 1 explores core concepts to do with work and work history and examines definitions, perceptions and the `making of workers'. Volume 2 focuses on work sites, with an emphasis on locations, migrations and households. Volume 3 considers labour markets and includes material on unemployment, gender and ethnicity, sociability/social networks and recent trends. Volume 4 covers collective action and the importance of the politics of labour, unions and forms of resistance. Each volume includes a substantial contextualizing introduction surveying the development of the field.

Author : Stephen Ackroyd
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199299249

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The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization by Stephen Ackroyd Pdf

Aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. This volume contains a range of theoretically informed essays, which give comprehensive coverage of changes in work, occupations, and organizations.