Labour History In The Semi Periphery

Author : Leda Papastefanaki,Nikos Potamianos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110620528

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Labour History in the Semi-periphery by Leda Papastefanaki,Nikos Potamianos Pdf

This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal labour; the tendency towards independent work and the role of culture; forms of labour management (from paternalistic policies to the provision of welfare capitalism); the importance of the institutional framework and the wider political context; and women’s labour and gender relations.

Author : Leda Papastefanaki,Nikos Potamianos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110617818

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Labour History in the Semi-periphery by Leda Papastefanaki,Nikos Potamianos Pdf

This collective volume aims at studying a variety of labour history themes in Southern Europe, and investigating the transformations of labour and labour relations that these areas underwent in the 19th and the 20th centuries. The subjects studied include industrial labour relations in Southern Europe; labour on the sea and in the shipyards of the Mediterranean; small enterprises and small land ownership in relation to labour; formal and informal labour; the tendency towards independent work and the role of culture; forms of labour management (from paternalistic policies to the provision of welfare capitalism); the importance of the institutional framework and the wider political context; and women’s labour and gender relations.

Author : Shahid Amin,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521589000

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Peripheral Labour by Shahid Amin,Marcel van der Linden Pdf

Takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers' and contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.

Author : Matthias Middell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474292177

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The Practice of Global History by Matthias Middell Pdf

Over recent decades, almost every area of historical study has seen its global turn – from consumption to finance, from politics to migration, from social order to cultural patterns. This volume reflects the vibrant state of global history scholarship in Europe and examines to what extent global history is practiced and conceptualised distinctively within Europe. Drawing together contributions from scholars from France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK, the book offers a sweeping overview of the state of the field. In particular, the contributors look at histories of colonialism and imperial expansion, knowledge circulation and mobility across borders. This book reflects the diversity of current scholarship on global and transnational history and will offer important insights for anyone interested in understanding the cutting edge of research in this area.

Author : Michael Rösser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111218090

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Prisms of Work by Michael Rösser Pdf

The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour relationship. On the basis of three case studies in colonial German East Africa - the construction of the Central Railway (1905-1916), the Otto Plantation in Kilossa (1907-1916) and the palaeontological Tendaguru Expedition (1909-1911) - labour and labour relations are analysed. The focus lies on hitherto neglected actors and groups of actors of labour in the colonial context of East Africa. These were especially German companies and their staff, white subaltern railway sub-contractors and labour recruiters, Indian skilled workers and (qualified) East African workers. Furthermore, all three sites of labour proved to have their individual logics and characteristics. But all of them were in tension between the 'global' and the 'local', coercion and voluntariness, machine and manual labour, skilled and unskilled labour, reproductive and wage labour, as well as between black and white. Michael Rösser's dissertation has been awarded with 'honorary distinction' by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH).

Author : Anna Delius
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Karel Davids,Joost Schokkenbroek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031272127

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The Transformation of Maritime Professions by Karel Davids,Joost Schokkenbroek Pdf

This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000. The changes in motive power, communication techniques and positioning technologies and the rise of passenger shipping went together with the creation of new tasks and functions and the marginalization or disappearance of traditional jobs and skills. This book presents case-studies on changes in different maritime professions between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the twentieth century, covering the shipping industries of a variety of seafaring countries in Europe. The subjects include changes in maritime labour at large, changes in specific groups of deck, catering or engine room personnel, such as captains, cooks, catering personnel, engineers, or radio-operators. A number of chapters employ a prosopographical or micro-historical approach, while others apply a spatial perspective, analyze business records, materials from professional associations or distil information from large sets of quantitative data. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, maritime and labour history.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351023160

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A Marxist History of Capitalism by Henry Heller Pdf

Henry Heller’s short account of the history of capitalism combines Marx’s economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light on the current capitalist crisis. It argues that capitalism is an evolving mode of production that has now outgrown its institutional and political limits. The book provides an overview of the different historical stages of capitalism, underpinned by accessible discussions of its theoretical foundations. Heller shows that capitalism has always been a double-edged sword, on one hand advancing humanity, and on the other harming traditional societies and our natural environment. He makes the case that capitalism has now become self-destructive, and that our current era of neoliberalism may trigger a transition to a democratic and ecologically aware form of socialism.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Carlos Ramirez-Faria
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136855733

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The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations by Carlos Ramirez-Faria Pdf

First published in 1991 this text provides an incisive analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. Central to the author’s investigation is the concept of underdevelopment, and a focus on successive Western ‘systems of conceptualisation’ of the relationship between the west and the rest of the world. The first part of the book concerns the Marx/Engels theory of the Asiatic mode of production, and the anti-Imperialist reaction against Eurocentrisim initiated by the theoretical synthesis of J. A. Hobson. This is followed by an examination of the post-World War II era, particularly the evolution of development studies and the differing versions of dependency theory. The author concludes with an analysis of the most recent reactions against economic imperialism and dependency theory, and concludes with an assessment of their implications for the further economic development of today’s Third World.

Author : Gregor Benton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031050244

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Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942 by Gregor Benton Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using fieldwork findings from the tin islands of Bangka and Belitung and the Deli plantations on Sumatra as well as archival materials in Dutch, Chinese, and other languages held in libraries in Java, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Leiden, this book presents cutting-edge research that sets out to contribute to the revising of our historical understanding of indenture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social movements
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092658487

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Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ravi Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135196585

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Global Capital and Peripheral Labour by Ravi Raman Pdf

Presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. This book shows how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. It focuses on labour and economic development problems and interprets the dynamics of plantation capitalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004448049

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Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations by Anonim Pdf

This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies placing labor at the centre of their analysis. It represents an important contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history.