Global Histories of Work

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2016

Global Histories of Work

Edited by: Andreas Eckert

Volume 1 in the series Work in Global and Historical Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110437201

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Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University of Berlin

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Inhalt Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction
Why all the fuss about Global Labour History? Andreas Eckert Open Access Download PDF	3
The Globalization of Labour History
The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History Marcel van der Linden Open Access Download PDF	25
Writing a Global History of Convict Labour Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein Open Access Download PDF	49
Rethinking Worlds of Labour Southern African Labour History in International Context Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien van der Walt Open Access Download PDF	90
Varieties of Work
Workers in the World Indian Seafarers, c. 1870s–1940s G. Balachandran Open Access Download PDF	125
Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? Reviewing Practices in Industry and the Military in Twentieth- Century Contexts Alf Lüdtke Open Access Download PDF	146
Work – Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? Gerd Spittler Open Access Download PDF	169
Dynamics of Labour Relations
The Politics of Ambiguity Conditional Manumission, Labor Contracts, and Slave Emancipation in Brazil (1850s–1888) Sidney Chalhoub Open Access Download PDF	183
Regulated Informality Legal Constructions of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814–1926 Prabhu P. Mohapatra Open Access Download PDF	215
The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Russia in a Comparative European Perspective Alessandro Stanziani Open Access Download PDF	239
The End of Wage Labour?
Wageless Life Michael Denning Open Access Download PDF	273
The Problem with Work Kathie Weeks Open Access Download PDF	291
Reshaping the social contract Emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India Rina Agarwala Open Access Download PDF	327
About authors Open Access Download PDF	368

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Wissenschaftler der (Sozial-)Geschichte, Politik, Soziologie; Studenten; interessierte Öffentlichkeit; Journalisten
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 368

eBook

Published: September 12, 2016
ISBN: 9783110437201

Hardcover

Published: September 12, 2016
ISBN: 9783110442335

Paperback

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110610475