Handbook Global History of Work
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Edited by:
Karin Hofmeester
About this book
Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of.
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession.
First global overview of the history of work, 1500 until today
Author / Editor information
Marcel van der Linden is Professor and Director of Research at the IISH, Amsterdam
Karin Hofmeester is Professor at the IISH, Amsterdam
Reviews
"Insgesamt erweist sich die Lektüre der Beiträge als äußerst anregend, denn ihr ausgesprochener Mehrwert liegt in der konsequenten Betonung des Potenzials einer zukünftigen Globalgeschichte der Arbeit. Das Handbuch ist damit eine äußerst hilfreiche Handreichung zum aktuellen Forschungsstand sowohl für die Arbeiten aus dem Bereich der Global- als auch aus dem der Labour- History."
Nina Kleinöder in: VSWG 106.3 (2019), 385-386
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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1. Introduction
1 - 2. Regions
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2.1. China
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2.2. South Asia
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2.3. Sub-saharan Africa
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2.4. Latin America and the Caribbean
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2.5. Canada and the United States
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2.6. Eastern Europe
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2.7. Western Europe
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2.8. Iran (Persia)
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2.9. The Ottoman Middle East and Modern Turkey
201 - 3. Types of Work
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3.1. Agriculture
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3.2. Mining
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3.3. Textile Industry
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3.4. Trade, Transport, and Services
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3.5. Administrative Staff
297 - 4. Labour Relations
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4.1. Introductory Remarks
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4.2. Subsistence and Household Labour
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4.3. Convict Labour
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4.4. Indentured Labour
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4.5. Slave Labour
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4.6. Wage Labour
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5. Attitudes To Work
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6. Labour Migration
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7. Work Incentives and Forms of Supervision
469 - 8. Organization and Resistance
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8.1. Mutualism
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8.2. Desertion
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8.3. Strikes, Lockouts, and Informal Resistance
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8.4. Trade Unions
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Acknowledgments
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Notes on Contributors
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Subject Index
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Index of Names
597
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