Global histories of work

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 Globa...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser: Eckert, Andreas 1964- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016]
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Work in global and historical perspective volume 1
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Work in global and historical perspective
Schlagworte:Labor HISTORY / World Arbeit Geschichte
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 367 Seiten)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Why all the fuss about global labour history? Andreas Eckert
  • The promise and challenges of global labor history Marcel van der Linden
  • Writing a global history of convict labour Christian G. De Vito/Alex Lichtenstein
  • Rethinking worlds of labour : Southern African labour history in international context Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien van der Walt
  • Workers in the world : Indian seafarers, c. 1870s-1940s G. Balachandran
  • Soldiering and working: almost the same? : reviewing practices in industry and the military in twentieth-century contexts Alf Lüdtke
  • Work – transformation of objects or interaction between subjects? Gerd Spittler
  • The politics of ambiguity : conditional manumission, labor contracts, and slave emancipation in Brazil (1850s-1888) Sidney Chalhoub
  • Regulated informality : legal constructions of labour relations in colonial India 1814-1926 Prabhu P. Mohapatra
  • The legal status of labour from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century : Russia in a comparative European perspective Alessandro Stanziani
  • Wageless life Michael Denning
  • The problem with work Kathie Weeks
  • Reshaping the social contract : emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India Rina Agarwala.