Labour in History and Society – serie
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Ethiopian Labour Movement
Trade Unions, Collective Action, and Contestation, 1960–2020
Inbunden, 2025
1576 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards. The author analyses the sharp variation in the orientation and vicissitudes of the labour movement over time, and how these have affected …
Ethiopian Labour Movement
Trade Unions, Collective Action, and Contestation, 1960–2020
Häftad, 2026
1576 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards. The author analyses the sharp variation in the orientation and vicissitudes of the labour movement over time, and how these have affected …
Transnational History of the Latin American Workers' Confederation, 1938–1963
In Favour of a Workers' Homeland
Inbunden, 2025
1464 kr
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This book examines the efforts of the Confederation of Latin American Workers (CTAL) in generating workers’ unity across the continent from 1938-1963. Emerging in 1938 during a period of geopolitical instability, CTAL was systemically and actively preoccupied with the problems that affected workers …
Latin America and the ILO in the Twentieth Century
From its Origins to the Cold War, 1919—1989
Av Andrés Stagnaro, Laura G. Caruso m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
2402 kr
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Bringing together historical research on a local, regional, and global scale, this edited collection investigates the processes, subjects and categories that shaped Latin American labour in the twentieth century and its connection with the International Labour Organization (ILO). The book proposes …
Chinese Miners in Japanese Manchuria, 1905–1945
Labouring for Coal
Av Limin Teh
Inbunden, 2026
1240 kr
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This book chronicles the history of Chinese miners in one of the largest mines in Northeast Asia from 1900 to 1948, situating this emergent working class at the nexus of industrial capitalism, imperial expansion, and nation-state construction. Coal from Fushun (in present-day Liaoning province) …
Short-term Labour and Precarious Work in Northern Europe, c. 1620-1870
Av Ella Viitaniemi, Sofia Gustafsson
Inbunden, 2026
568 kr
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This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employment—potentially lasting decades—was uncommon in Northern Europe until the advent of large-scale industrialisation and the …
Silk Industry in Early Modern Piedmont
The Fabric of Innovation
Av Mario Grassi
Inbunden, 2026
568 kr
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This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped regional strategies of adaptation and growth, …
History of Work and Time in Europe
From the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Av Corine Maitte, Didier Terrier
Inbunden, 2027
1553 kr
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This book challenges conventional narratives of the evolution of working hours in Western Europe, offering a fresh perspective on the complex mosaic of actual working time. By examining the historical and sociological dimensions of labour from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, it challenges …
