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Workers of the World
Essays toward a Global Labor History
Inbunden, 2008
3425 kr
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The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history …
Chains of Gold
Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse …
Migration History in World History
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Av Jan Lucassen
Inbunden, 2010
2472 kr
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Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the …
World in World Wars
Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia
Inbunden, 2010
3237 kr
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The volume situates itself within the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. By investigating social and cultural aspects of these wars in African, South Asian and Middle Eastern societies it aims at recovering both the diversity of perspectives and their …
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
2660 kr
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Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections …
Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations
The Long-term Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Inbunden, 2010
3170 kr
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In 1807 the British “Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade” received the Royal Assent. The Act represented the first significant attempt by a Great Power to exert global influence over the development of human rights, and, relatedly, labor conditions worldwide. The essays presented in this book …
Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s
Inbunden, 2011
3170 kr
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Long-distance migration of peoples have been a central if little understood factor in global integration. The essays in this collection contribute to a new history of world migrations, written by specialists of particular areas of the world. Collectively these essays point towards a shift from the …
Working on Labor
Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen
Inbunden, 2012
3090 kr
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This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, …
Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries
Inbunden, 2012
2686 kr
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The history of the forms of “free” labour is intimately linked to that of coerced labour. In this book, worldwide acknowledged specialists of Russia, China, Russia, Japan, India, the Indian Ocean, France and Britain show that between the seventeenth and the twentieth century, forms of labour and …
Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe
Inbunden, 2012
3246 kr
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In Worthy Efforts Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly offer an innovative approach to the history of perceptions and representations of work in Europe throughout Classical Antiquity and the medieval and early modern periods. Covering the broadest possible range of historical writings to elucidate the …
Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution
Häftad, 2013
1000 kr
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Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections …
Framing a Radical African Atlantic
African American Agency, West African Intellectuals and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
Av Holger Weiss
Inbunden, 2013
4343 kr
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In Framing a Radical African Atlantic Holger Weiss presents a critical outline and analysis of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW) and the attempts by the Communist International (Comintern) to establish an anticolonial political platform in the Caribbean and …
Global Convict Labour
Inbunden, 2015
3600 kr
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Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical …
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850–1960)
Inbunden, 2015
2931 kr
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Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, …
On Coerced Labor
Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
Inbunden, 2016
2996 kr
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On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the …
International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939
Av Holger Weiss
Inbunden, 2016
2752 kr
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This book provides an analysis of the articulation and organisation of radical international solidarity by organisations that were either connected to or had been established by the Communist International (Comintern), such as the International Red Aid, the International Workers’ Relief, the League …
On Coerced Labor
Work and Compulsion after Chattel Slavery
Häftad, 2016
1089 kr
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On Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the …
"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2018
2727 kr
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“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas.The IWMA struggled for the …
Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850
Movements and Businesses
Av Mary Hilson
Inbunden, 2017
3721 kr
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With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts …
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel
Av Karin Priem
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The …
Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
Inbunden, 2017
3023 kr
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Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin cities” around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore …
Women's ILO
Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present
Av Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
3614 kr
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What is the place of women in global labour policies? Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards, and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present gathers new research on a century of ILO engagement with women’s work. It asks: what was the role of women’s networks in shaping ILO policies and …
This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830
Av Lisa Hellman
Inbunden, 2018
2257 kr
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Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around – even whom they could interaction with – were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes …
Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden
Av Ulbe Bosma
Inbunden, 2018
2150 kr
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The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van …
City Intelligible
A Philosophical and Historical Anthropology of Global Commoditisation before Industrialisation
Av Frank Perlin
Inbunden, 2020
2791 kr
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City Intelligible seeks to integrate a transcendental philosophical anthropology of commoditisation before industrialisation with a social and cultural, thus empirical anthropology of commodity production and exchange that is global, thus inter-cultural. It treats commodification as a singular and …
Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective
Inbunden, 2020
2996 kr
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This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to …
Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century
Av Boris Barth
Inbunden, 2020
2472 kr
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The civilizing mission associated with nineteenth-century colonialism became harder to justify after the First World War. In an increasingly anti-imperialist culture, elites reformulated schemes for the “improvement” of “inferior” societies. Nation building, social engineering, humanitarianism, …
Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations
Inbunden, 2021
2391 kr
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Due to the increasing linkage of global production sites, the concept of commodity chains has become indispensable for the investigation of production at a global scale. Although work is the basis of production in every involved location, it is often being neglected as a research subject without …
Global Radical Waterfront
The International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, 1921–1937
Av Holger Weiss
Inbunden, 2021
2727 kr
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This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers, replaced in 1930 by the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers as …
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
Inbunden, 2021
2298 kr
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists …
