Micro Spatial Histories Of Global Labour

Author : Christian G. De Vito,Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009406246

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Writing the History of Global Slavery by Trevor Burnard Pdf

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we connect it more closely to another important world institution - empires in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Moreover, we can learn from scholars of modern slavery and use more than we do the enormous proliferation of usable sources about the lives, experiences and thoughts of the enslaved, from ancient to modern times, to make these voices of the enslaved crucial drivers of how we conceptualise and describe the varied kinds of global slavery in world history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:78480061

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Antagadadasão by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck
Publisher : Olsokhagen
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781737136811

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A Guide to Spatial History by Konrad Lawson,Riccardo Bavaj,Bernhard Struck Pdf

This guide provides an overview of the thematic areas, analytical aspects, and avenues of research which, together, form a broader conversation around doing spatial history. Spatial history is not a field with clearly delineated boundaries. For the most part, it lacks a distinct, unambiguous scholarly identity. It can only be thought of in relation to other, typically more established fields. Indeed, one of the most valuable utilities of spatial history is its capacity to facilitate conversations across those fields. Consequently, it must be discussed in relation to a variety of historiographical contexts. Each of these have their own intellectual genealogies, institutional settings, and conceptual path dependencies. With this in mind, this guide surveys the following areas: territoriality, infrastructure, and borders; nature, environment, and landscape; city and home; social space and political protest; spaces of knowledge; spatial imaginaries; cartographic representations; and historical GIS research.

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Stephan Conermann,Youval Rotman,Ehud R. Toledano,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111296913

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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement by Stephan Conermann,Youval Rotman,Ehud R. Toledano,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, who study forms of enslavement in both modern and historical societies, have sought - and often achieved - common conceptual grounds, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical and contemporary forms of slavery. What could certainly be termed a turn in the study of slavery has also intensified awareness of enslavement as a global phenomenon, inviting a comparative, trans-regional approach across time-space divides. Though different aspects of enslavement in different societies and eras are discussed, each of the volume's three parts contributes to, and has benefitted from, a global perspective of enslavement. The chapters in Part One propose to structure the global examination of the theoretical, ideological, and methodological aspects of the "global," "local," and "glocal." Part Two, "Regional and Trans-regional Perspectives of the Global," presents, through analyses of historical case studies, the link between connectivity and mobility as a fundamental aspect of the globalization of enslavement. Finally, Part Three deals with personal points of view regarding the global, local, and glocal. Grosso modo, the contributors do not only present their case studies, but attempt to demonstrate what insights and added-value explanations they gain from positioning their work vis-à-vis a broader "big picture."

Author : Ismay Milford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009276993

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African Activists in a Decolonising World by Ismay Milford Pdf

As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. Through the perspective of these activists, Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to Delhi, Cairo, London, Accra and beyond. Forming committees and publishing pamphlets, these activists worked with pan-African and Afro-Asian solidarity projects, Cold War student internationals, spiritual internationalists and diverse pressure groups. Milford argues that a focus on their everyday labour and knowledge production highlights certain limits of transnational and international activism, opening up a critical - albeit less heroic - perspective on the global history of anticolonial work and thought.

Author : Holger Weiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110670714

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Locating the Global by Holger Weiss Pdf

This volume adds to the plurality of global histories by locating the global through its articulation and manifestation within particular localities. It accomplishes this by bringing together interlinked case-studies that analyse various temporal and spatial dimensions of the global in the local and the interactions between the local and the global. The case-studies apply a spatial approach to analyse how global questions of space, movement, networks, borders, and territory are worked out at a local level. The material draws on the Nordic countries, Europe, the Atlantic world, Africa, and Australia and ranges from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It is further divided into sections that address topics such as the translocality of humans and goods, local articulations of identities and globalities, parliamentarism and anti-colonialism, the organization of knowledge and the construction of spaces of representation and memory.

Author : Maurizio Atzeni,Dario Azzellini,Alessandra Mezzadri,Phoebe Moore,Ursula Apitzsch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839106583

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Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work by Maurizio Atzeni,Dario Azzellini,Alessandra Mezzadri,Phoebe Moore,Ursula Apitzsch Pdf

This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.

Author : Alessandro Stanziani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350276840

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Tensions of Social History by Alessandro Stanziani Pdf

This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'western' and 'non-western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions. Offering a transnational and global history of the main tools we have to understand the word and its transformations over the last three centuries, Tensions of Social History explores the construction of archives and historical memory, the making of statistics and their use in politics, the identification of social actors, and the emergence of key social theories. Providing key insights into how to write history and develop social sciences in the global era while avoiding eurocentrism and cultural exceptionalism, this ambitious book shows how global history is made of encounters rather than confrontations between civilizations.

Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108499958

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The City of Blue and White by Anne Gerritsen Pdf

A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.

Author : Görkem Akgöz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004687141

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In the Shadow of War and Empire by Görkem Akgöz Pdf

In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in Istanbul, which, in the contemporary words of one of the country’s most prominent contemporary Marxist theorists, became “the secret to and the basis of Turkish capitalism" in the 1930s.

Author : Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja,Shivalinggam Raymond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000918205

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Revisiting Colonialism and Colonial Labour by Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja,Shivalinggam Raymond Pdf

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism – that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon – needs to be rethought. It focuses on the experiences of the South Indian working class, large numbers of which came to Malaya in the early years of the twentieth century, emigrating from socially, economically, and environmentally inhospitable south India. It examines the opportunities which colonialism presented for these people, highlighting also the British approach to colonialism in Malaya, an approach which emphasised conservativism and tradition, and which protected the interests of the Malay aristocrat classes and, by extension, the Malay masses in order to compensate for European economic dominance and the influx of a non-Malay labour force. Overall, the book demonstrates that the South Indians, a class whose identity, social existence, and prospects were inextricably linked to imperial processes, benefitted from colonialism, and should be viewed as an active transnational entity within a constructive system, rather than as passive victims of repressive, destructive forces.

Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2019315575

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Global Labour History by Marcel van der Linden Pdf