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Global Histories of Work / ed. by Andreas Eckert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 1Publisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (VI, 368 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110437201
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Introduction -- Why all the fuss about Global Labour History? -- The Globalization of Labour History -- The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History -- Writing a Global History of Convict Labour -- Rethinking Worlds of Labour -- Varieties of Work -- Workers in the World -- Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? -- Work - Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? -- Dynamics of Labour Relations -- The Politics of Ambiguity -- Regulated Informality -- The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- The End of Wage Labour? -- Wageless Life -- The Problem with Work -- Reshaping the social contract -- About authors
Summary: 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 History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.
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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Introduction -- Why all the fuss about Global Labour History? -- The Globalization of Labour History -- The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History -- Writing a Global History of Convict Labour -- Rethinking Worlds of Labour -- Varieties of Work -- Workers in the World -- Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? -- Work - Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? -- Dynamics of Labour Relations -- The Politics of Ambiguity -- Regulated Informality -- The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- The End of Wage Labour? -- Wageless Life -- The Problem with Work -- Reshaping the social contract -- About authors

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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 History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.

Issued also in print.

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