Work

Andrea Komlosy is professor at the Department for Social and Economic History at the University of Vienna, Austria, where she is coordinator of the Global History and Global Studies programs. She has published on labor, migration, borders and uneven development on a regional, a European and a global scale. In 2014/15 she was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Whetherhead Center for International Relations at Harvard University.

Capturing this churn [in both work itself and our ideas about it] is the difficult task that historian Andrea Komlosy attempts in her new book Work: The Last 1,000 Years..Komlosy attempts the monumental task of writing a large-scale global history of labor adequate to the growing instability in how we define and participate in work.

• Introduction1 Terms and Concepts2 Work Discourses3 Work and Language4 Categories of Analysis5 Divisions of Labour: The Simultaneity and Combination of (Different) Labour Relations6 Historical Cross-Sections7 Combining Labour Relations in the Longue DuréeAppendix: A Lexical Comparison Across European LanguagesNotesIndex