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Household Strategies for Survival 1600-2000
Fission, Faction and Cooperation
Av Laurence Fontaine, Jürgen Schlumbohm
Häftad, 2001
435 kr
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In pre-industrial Europe, as in developing countries today, much of the population had to struggle to survive. The livelihood of all those who lived by the work of their hands was highly insecure. This book considers the 'labouring poor' not simply as victims, but as actively pursuing a whole range …
Petitions in Social History
Häftad, 2002
426 kr
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This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have allowed their subjects to voice opinions in the form of petitions, which have demanded a favour or the redressment of an injustice. To be …
The End of Labour History?
Häftad, 1994
435 kr
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The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their …
De-Industrialization
Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects
Av Marcel Van Der Linden, Bert Altena m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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De-industrialization processes have accompanied industrialization from the start, both regionally and globally. Most historical studies of de-industrialization focus on economic issues, including structural causes and forms of unemployment. Much less attention is usually paid to the social and …
Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions, 1750-2000: Volume 11
Av Aad Blok, Greg Downey
Häftad, 2003
569 kr
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Discussion of the current Information Revolution tends to focus on technological developments in information and communication and overlooks both the human labour involved in the development, maintenance and daily use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the consequences of the …
Citizenship, Identity, and Social History
Av Charles Tilly, Charles Tilly
Häftad, 1996
569 kr
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Citizenship and identity provide the focus for this collection of original essays from a group of theoretically innovative historians and social scientists. The volume explores the competing and sometimes conflicting roles of citizenship and identity, be it racial, class, ethnic or other, in …
Peripheral Labour
Studies in the History of Partial Proletarianization
Av Shahid Amin, Marcel van der Linden
Häftad, 1997
435 kr
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This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in …
Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements
Framing Protest in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Av Michiel Baud, Rosanne Rutten
Häftad, 2005
398 kr
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All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the …
The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family?
Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation
Häftad, 1998
418 kr
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This collection of essays looks at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning in both western and non-western history. As a collection it provides new insights into the historical and cross-cultural development of the male breadwinner family and its determinants, and, as such, …
New Methods for Social History
Av Larry J. Griffin, Marcel van der Linden
Häftad, 1999
586 kr
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During the two decades prior to publication of this book, sociologists had developed a range of new research methods that could be of much use to social historians. This 1999 collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of these methods: event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, …
Marriage Choices and Class Boundaries
Social Endogamy in History
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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Marriage choice plays a crucial role in the formation and decay of social classes. Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is thus central to social history. The study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection has changed over time …
Coolies, Capital and Colonialism
Studies in Indian Labour History
Av Rana P. Behal, Marcel van der Linden
Häftad, 2007
603 kr
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Marriage choice plays a crucial role in the formation and decay of social classes. Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is thus central to social history. The study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection has changed over time …
The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16
Av Jan Lucassen, Tine De Moor m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
590 kr
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New approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history have re-examined guilds - not least within the framework of a re-appraisal of the classic distinction between the 'capitalist' and 'pre-capitalist' modes of production. These fresh approaches are unravelling the reasons why guilds …
Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity
Av Eileen Boris, Angelique Janssens
Häftad, 2000
435 kr
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This volume focuses on complicating central concepts in the understanding of economic and social history: class, gender, race and ethnicity. Only recently have historians begun to ask how gender, race, and ethnicity as categories of analysis change narratives of class formation and working-class …
Women's Rights and Global Socialism: Volume 30, Part 1
Av Celia Donert, Christine Moll-Murata
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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Women's emancipation was a central but contested pillar of socialist and communist internationalism during the twentieth century. The collapse of state socialism has led to renewed interest in the history and legacies of women's movements across the former socialist world during the era of …
Punishing Workers, Managing Labour: Volume 31
Av Christian de Vito, Adam Fagbore m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
307 kr
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Contributors to this volume examine the historical role of punishment in the management of labour, looking into the histories of blinded slaves in ancient Mesopotamia, flogged peasant farmers in Pharaonic Egypt, convict officers in the prisons of colonial India, and blacklisted factory workers in …
Globalization, Environmental Change, and Social History
Av Peter Boomgaard, Marjolein 't Hart
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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Throughout all ages, the activities of mankind have weighed heavily upon the environment. In turn, changes in that environment have favoured the rise of certain social groups and limited the actions of others. Despite this, environmental history has remained a 'blind spot' for most social and …
Labour in Transport
Histories from the Global South, c.1750-1950
Av Stefano Bellucci, Larissa Rosa Corrêa m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
401 kr
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Transport labour has been a fundamental feature in every economic system and in every epoch of humanity worldwide. This volume considers the history of labour in transport from 1750 to 1950, in the context of globalisation and the evolution of capitalism. The nine articles presented in this …
The Joy and Pain of Work
Global Attitudes and Valuations, 1500-1650
Av Karin Hofmeester, Christine Moll-Murata
Häftad, 2012
409 kr
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From 1500 to 1650 many societies underwent profound social and economic change. As market economies developed and regions became interconnected, labour relations were transformed alongside ideas about work. Until now, these perceptions of work have rarely been studied from a global perspective, …
Mediating Labour
Worldwide Labour Intermediation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Ulbe Bosma, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
426 kr
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The essays in this volume aim to explain the evolution and persistence of various practices of indirect labour recruitment. Labour intermediation is understood as a global phenomenon, present for many centuries in most countries of the world and taking on a wide range of forms: varying from …
Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution
A Global Survey
Av Clare Anderson, Niklas Frykman m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
435 kr
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This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and continued until the 1840s. The central theme of the volume is mutiny - its causes, frequency, forms, patterns and outcomes - charting, …
Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition: Volume 28, Part 1
Häftad, 2020
307 kr
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When the full abolition of slavery appeared on the political agenda in the Atlantic world the institutional arrangements that underpinned the peculiar institution changed dramatically. Although many have studied these transformations, their urban dimension has remained underappreciated. The …
Migration and Ethnicity in Coalfield History
Global Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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Coal has been fundamental for the development of industrial and transport technologies since the nineteenth century. Globalisation, including colonialism, would not have been possible without coal-based energy and thus the exploitation of coal in every part of the world. But coal mining is a …
When 'Adjusted' People Rebel: Volume 29
Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day)
Av Leyla Dakhli, Vincent Bonnecase
Häftad, 2021
346 kr
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In the Middle East and Africa, deteriorating living conditions have given rise to a variety of social movements and unrest since the 1970s. Although each of these events and movements had its own logic, they all took place in the context of the implementation of neoliberal economic policies, …
Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700-1850)
Av Pepijn Brandon, Niklas Frykman m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
321 kr
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Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or semi-free wage-laborers, soldiers, sailors, and the self-employed, indentured servants, convicts, and slaves. From the …
Transportation, Deportation and Exile
Perspectives from the Colonies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Christian G. De Vito, Clare Anderson m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
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The ten contributions to this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies. They demonstrate that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a critical period in the reconfiguration of empires, imperial governmentality and punishment, including through extensive …
Conquerors, Employers and Arbiters
States and Shifts in Labour Relations, 1500-2000
Av Karin Hofmeester, Gijs Kessler m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
354 kr
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Starting from a broad definition of labour relations as the full range of vertical and horizontal social relations under which work is performed, both within and outside the household, this volume examines the way states have shaped and interacted with labour relations in a wide range of periods …
