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29 produkter
Global Histories of Work
Inbunden, 2016
1291 kr
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Coolies of Capitalism
Assam Tea and the Making of Coolie Labour
Av Nitin Varma
Inbunden, 2016
1291 kr
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“Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for “mobilized-immobilized” labour. Coolie …
Work out of Place
Av Mahua Sarkar
Inbunden, 2017
1291 kr
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All work is free work – or is it? Rooted in the historical and theoretical debates over the status of labor, this volume analyzes the relationship between free and forced work, migration, and the role that states play in producing un-freedom. With contributions among others from Stephen Castles, …
To be at Home
House, Work, and Self in the Modern World
Av James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke
Inbunden, 2018
661 kr
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Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the …
Laboring Along
Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania
Av Adrian Grama
Inbunden, 2018
1366 kr
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Products of war rather than revolution, the socialist regimes of Eastern Europe emerged in a global conjuncture defined by the aftermath of the Second World War. How did these regimes manage to overcome the domestic impact of the war and build socialism at the same time? This book shows how a …
Global Histories of Work
Häftad, 2018
441 kr
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Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour …
Workers Before the Court
Conflicts and Labor Justice in the Context of the 1964 Coup d'Etat in Brazil
Inbunden, 2019
1610 kr
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Law and justice are studied in this book from the perspective of social andglobal history. The main focus of Workers Before the Tribunal is toovercome traditional binary oppositions between corporativist andcontratualist models of labor relations, the former representing a view inwhich the working …
Entangled Coercion
African and Indigenous Labour in Charcas (16th–17th Century)
Inbunden, 2021
1442 kr
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This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bolivia) in the 16th and 17th centuries.
"The Distress is Impossible to Convey"
British and German Trade-Union Reports on Labour in India (1926–1928)
Av Ravi Ahuja, Marcel van der Linden m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1551 kr
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Asian industrial competition, from Japan, China but also India, attracted greater public attention in Europe during the inter-war period than ever before. Indian industrial employment became the subject not only of extensive official enquiries, intensified legislation, a growing number of academic …
Corona and Work around the Globe
Av Andreas Eckert, Felicitas Hentschke
Inbunden, 2020
339 kr
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This book provides a global perspective on the transformations in the world of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of essays will break down the general statistics and trends into glimpses of concrete experiences of workers during pandemic, of workplaces transformed or destroyed, …
Anti-Communist Solidarity
US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985)
Inbunden, 2021
1442 kr
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Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in exchange programs with the United States to learn about the American way of life. In Brazil, during the international context of the Cold War, when …
Touts
Recruiting Indentured Labor in the Gulf of Guinea
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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Touts is a historical account of the troubled formation of a colonial labor market in the Gulf of Guinea and a major contribution to the historiography of indentured labor, which has relatively few reference points in Africa. The setting is West Africa’s largest island, Fernando Po or Bioko in …
Worlds of Labour in Latin America
Av Paola Revilla Orías, Paulo Cruz Terra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in …
Working on Rights
Labor Protest and Democratic Opposition in Spain and Poland, 1960–1990
Av Anna Delius
Inbunden, 2023
779 kr
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This book is the first to connect global labor history and the history of human rights: By focusing on democratic labor oppositions in Spain and Poland between 1960 and 1990, it shows how workers in authoritarian regimes addressed repression and whether they developed a language of rights in the …
Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy
The ILO Contribution to Development (1930–1946)
Häftad, 2022
315 kr
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Founded in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles as part of the League of Nations’ system, the ILO is still today the main organization responsible for the international organization of work and the improvement of working conditions in the world. Widely recognized for its efforts in building …
Blacksmiths of Ilamba
A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century)
Inbunden, 2023
910 kr
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Power At Work
A Global Perspective on Control and Resistance
Av Marcel van der Linden, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
Inbunden, 2023
380 kr
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Between working men and women (which may include “free” wage earners, chattel slaves, indentured labourers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, and many others) and those employing them, there has always been a constant – mostly silent but sometimes overt – struggle concerning employers’ …
Welfare Work Without Welfare
Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest
Inbunden, 2025
660 kr
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Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others’ well-being in the interwar period through their "austerity welfare work".Revealing links and tensions between the performers of different types of underpaid or …
Moving Workers
Historical Perspectives on Labour, Coercion and Im/Mobilities
Av Claudia Bernardi, Viola Franziska Müller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
779 kr
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This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion. The contributions in this book are based on extensive archival research and …
Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History
Inbunden, 2023
388 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives, across the globe and throughout the centuries, on the complexity of the nexus between work and the life course. For industrialized regions, from Germany and Western Europe to China and Japan, it questions the widespread notion of an overall …
Prisms of Work
Labour, Recruitment and Command in German East Africa
Inbunden, 2023
779 kr
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The phenomenon of labour takes the character of a prism. Labour is thereby always context dependent and constituted through the actions of all protagonists involved in any labour relationship. On the basis of three case studies in colonial German East Africa – the construction of the Central …
Industrial Labour in an Unequal World
Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development
Av Christian Strümpell, Michael Hoffmann
Inbunden, 2023
779 kr
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The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their …
Worlds of Labour in Latin America
Av Paola Revilla Orías, Paulo Cruz Terra m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
276 kr
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This book reflects the development of Latin American labour history across broad geographical, chronological and thematic perspectives, which seek to review and revisit key concepts at different levels. The contributions are closely linked to the most recent trends in Global Labour History and in …
Blacksmiths of Ilamba
A Social History of Labor at the Nova Oeiras Iron Foundry (Angola, 18th Century)
Häftad, 2024
318 kr
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Vocational Training in Indo-German Cooperation, 1950–1989
Between Development Politics and Business Interests
Inbunden, 2026
723 kr
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Indo-German cooperation in vocational training is a timely topic, as politicians, scholars, and the media highlight problems in India’s skill formation system and point to the ‘German model’ as inspiration. This book offers the first comprehensive historical analysis of Indo-German entanglements in …
Matrix of Work
Through a Dark Valley – On the Road to Prosperity and Freedom?!
Av Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit, Cornelius Markert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
908 kr
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The “Matrix of Work” provides an interdisciplinary “big picture” of the global history of human work from its beginnings to the end of the 21st century. In the sense of a matrix, the book encompasses both an in-depth analysis of the essential structural elements of the epochs of work and an …
Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy
The ILO Contribution to Development (1930–1946)
Inbunden, 2020
1779 kr
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Enduring Change
The Labor and Social History of One Third-front Industrial Complex in China from the 1960s to the Present
Av Ju Li
Inbunden, 2019
2011 kr
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In Enduring Change, Ju Li explores the concrete labor and social history of one particular Third-Front industrial complex in China from the 1960s to the globalized present. By connecting the micro-historical-ethnographic research with larger structural dynamics, Li provides a vivid, in-depth, and …
Between Global Standards and Unequal Treatment
The International Labour Organization and Racialised Labour, 1920s–1950s
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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This book investigates the development and impact of racialised labour policies and discourses within the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 1919 to the late 1950s. Drawing on concepts from Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Theory, it explores how beliefs about racial difference …
