Global histories of work / / edited by Andreas Eckert.

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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Place / Publishing House:Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Work in Global and Historical Perspective
Physical Description:1 online resource (374 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Inhalt
  • Introduction
  • Why all the fuss about Global Labour History? / Eckert, Andreas
  • The Globalization of Labour History
  • The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History / Linden, Marcel van der
  • Writing a Global History of Convict Labour / De Vito, Christian G. / Lichtenstein, Alex
  • Rethinking Worlds of Labour / Bonner, Philip / Hyslop, Jonathan / Walt, Lucien van der
  • Varieties of Work
  • Workers in the World / Balachandran, G.
  • Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? / Lüdtke, Alf
  • Work - Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? / Spittler, Gerd
  • Dynamics of Labour Relations
  • The Politics of Ambiguity / Chalhoub, Sidney
  • Regulated Informality / Mohapatra, Prabhu P.
  • The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / Stanziani, Alessandro
  • The End of Wage Labour?
  • Wageless Life / Denning, Michael
  • The Problem with Work / Weeks, Kathie
  • Reshaping the social contract / Agarwala, Rina
  • About authors