Resources Empire Labour

Author : David Leadbeater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1552666735

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Resources, Empire & Labour by David Leadbeater Pdf

The interconnections of natural resources, empire and labour run through the most central and conflict-ridden crises of our times: war, environmental degradation, impoverishment and plutocracy. Crucial to understand and to change the conditions that give rise to these crises is the critical study of resource development and, more broadly, the resources question, which is the subject of this volume. Intended for researchers, students and activists, the chapters in Resources, Empire and Labour illuminate key aspects of the resources question from a variety of angles through concrete analyses and histories focused on the extractive industries (mining, oil, gas) by examining such issues as: resource-dependency at the international, country and regional levels; the neglected role of metropolitanization; environmental impacts and limits; the colonial basis of and imperial patterns in today's globalized resource exploitation system; lessons of Indigenous and working-class resistance to corporation resource extraction; the importance of democratic control and public ownership; new avenues in shifting the debate on resources and hinterlands.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004331686

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Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

Work, Labour, and Professions in the Roman World offers new insights, ideas and interpretations on the role of labour and human resources in the Roman economy. The book approaches labour not only as an economic phenomenon, but gives attention also to work as social and cultural phenomenon.

Author : Daniel E. Bender,Jana K. Lipman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479871254

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Making the Empire Work by Daniel E. Bender,Jana K. Lipman Pdf

Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.

Author : Adam Moore
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501716393

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Empire’s Labor by Adam Moore Pdf

In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He highlights the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War, when the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6. In Afghanistan it has been as high as 4:1. This growth in logistics contracting represents a fundamental change in how the US fights wars, with the military now dependent on a huge pool of contractors recruited from around the world. It also, Moore demonstrates, has social, economic, and political implications that extend well beyond the battlefields. Focusing on workers from the Philippines and Bosnia, two major sources of "third country national" (TCN) military labor, Moore explains the rise of large-scale logistics outsourcing since the end of the Cold War; describes the networks, infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which people, information, and goods circulate; and reveals the experiences of foreign workers, from the hidden dynamics of labor activism on bases, to the economic and social impacts these jobs have on their families and the communities they hail from. Through his extensive fieldwork and interviews, Moore gives voice to the agency and aspirations of the many thousands of foreigners who labor for the US military. Thanks to generous funding from UCLA and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.

Author : Sven Beckert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375713965

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Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert Pdf

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

Author : Erik Loomis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107125490

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Empire of Timber by Erik Loomis Pdf

This is the first book to center labor unions as actors in American environmental policy.

Author : Padraic X. Scanlan
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472142320

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Slave Empire by Padraic X. Scanlan Pdf

'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist The British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.

Author : Kay Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351120647

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Indentured Labour in the British Empire, 1834-1920 by Kay Saunders Pdf

First published in 1984. Indentured labour migration in the nineteenth century intersects many of the most serious issues of our own time - racism, Third World poverty, and the arrogance of a great world powers. Indenture suggests lack of freedom and the exploitation of people formed into exile or misadventure. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many respects it can be regarded as a replacement of the slave labour system. Indeed, both concerned humanitarians and officials in the nineteenth century, and many historians subsequently have regarded indentured labour merely as 'a new system of slavery'. Many of the articles in this book address themselves to this assertion, whilst investigating the particular variations inherent in their geographic area. The differing patterns of Indian indenture in the West Indies and British Guiana, coming almost immediately after slavery, forms the first section of this book. Attention is given to the Indians engaged in the sugar industries in Mauritius and Fiji, and the rubber industry in Malaya. The use of Pacific Islanders in the Queensland industry is also examined, particularly in the sugar industry which, by the early twentieth century, contained the unique pattern of white, expensive, unionized labour. Other groups dealt with include the aboriginal workers in Australia and the Chinese workers in the Transvaal. Overall, this book is comprehensive and far-reaching in its scope and the complex issues which it raises.

Author : Leda Papastefanaki,M. Erdem Kabadayı
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Thomas Worswick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108008582739

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The Economic Resources of the Empire by Thomas Worswick Pdf

Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241958513

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Empire by Niall Ferguson Pdf

Niall Ferguson's acclaimed bestseller on the highs and lows of Britain's empire Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic achieve all this? And why did the empire on which the sun literally never set finally decline and fall? Niall Ferguson's acclaimed Empire brilliantly unfolds the imperial story in all its splendours and its miseries, showing how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers planted the seed of the biggest empire in all history - and set the world on the road to modernity. 'The most brilliant British historian of his generation ... Ferguson examines the roles of "pirates, planters, missionaries, mandarins, bankers and bankrupts" in the creation of history's largest empire ... he writes with splendid panache ... and a seemingly effortless, debonair wit' Andrew Roberts 'Dazzling ... wonderfully readable' New York Review of Books 'A remarkably readable précis of the whole British imperial story - triumphs, deceits, decencies, kindnesses, cruelties and all' Jan Morris 'Empire is a pleasure to read and brims with insights and intelligence' Sunday Times

Author : Karin Hofmeester,Pim de Zwart
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048535026

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Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations by Karin Hofmeester,Pim de Zwart Pdf

This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.

Author : Abigail Leslie Swingen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300187540

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Competing Visions of Empire by Abigail Leslie Swingen Pdf

This title explores the connections between the origins of the English empire and unfree labour by exploring how England's imperial designs influenced contemporary politics and debates about labour, population, political economy, and overseas trade. It pays particular attention to how and why slavery and England's participation in the transatlantic slave trade came to be widely accepted as central to the national and imperial interest by contributing to the idea that colonies with slaves were essential for the functioning of the empire.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Comparative Soci
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9004524444

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Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World by Anonim Pdf

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to renew the comparative method by questioning the inherited comparative categories. By varying the analytical perspectives in different empirical and social sciences fields, this volume opens new spaces for the comparative method.

Author : Anthony Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135127305

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Empire, Industry and Class by Anthony Cox Pdf

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two regional economies – one in an imperial country and the other in a colonial one. The book examines the everyday lives of the jute workers of the imperial nexus, and the impact of the ‘Dundee School’ of Scottish mechanics, engineers and managers who ran the Calcutta jute industry. It goes on to challenge existing theories of imperialism, class formation and class struggle – particularly those that underline the exceptional nature of the Indian experience of industrialization - and demonstrates how and why Empire was able to provide an opportunity to test and perfect ways of controlling the lower classes of Dundee. These historical debates have a continued relevance as we observe the impact of globalization and rapid industrialization in the so-called developing world and the accompanying changes in many areas of the developed world marked by de-industrialization. The book is of use to scholars of imperial history, labour history, British history and South Asian history.