Working on Labor

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of Social Movement History at the University of Amsterdam. Leo Lucassen (1959), is Professor of Social History and Chair of the History Department at Leiden University.

• Introduction, Marcel van der Linden and Leo LucassenWORK PROCESSESWorking for Diamonds from the 16th to the 20th Century, Karin HofmeesterGreen Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal’s Indigo Industry, Willem van SchendelDak Roads, Dak Runners and the Re-ordering of Communication Networks, Chitra JoshiChanging Production Systems and Forms of Labor Control in the Javanese Cigarette Industry: 1920s-1930s, Ratna SaptariOCCUPATIONSSelling in the Shadows: Peddlers and Hawkers in Early Modern Europe, Danielle van den HeuvelThe Worst Class of Workers. Migration, Labor Relations and Living Strategies of Prostitutes around 1900, Lex Heerma van VossFighting for a Living in Europe and Asia, Erik-Jan ZürcherWhite Collar Workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602-1795, Karel DavidsMOBILITIESThe Career Ladder to the Top of the Dutch East India Company: Could Foreigners also Become Commanders and Junior Merchants?, Jaap R. Bruijn & Femme S. GaastraDemographic Change and Migration Flows in Holland between 1500 and 1800, Jan Luiten van Zanden & Maarten Prak The Economic Contribution of Labor Migrants in the European Maritime Labor Market of the Long Eighteenth Century, Jelle van LottumIncome Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century, Richard W. UngerCONTEXTUALIZATIONSLabor Laws in Western Europe, 13th-16th Centuries: Patterns of Political and Socio-economic Rationality, Catharina Lis & Hugo SolyThe First “Male Breadwinner Economy”? Dutch Married Women’s and Children’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe Perspective, c. 1600-1900, Elise van Nederveen MeerkerkWage Labor and the Household Economy: a Russian Perspective, 1600-2000, Gijs KesslerCane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930s: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics, Ulbe BosmaSOURCESUnwritten Autobiography: Labor History Libraries before World War I, Jaap KloostermanNotes on ContributorsTabula GratulatoriaIndex