Handbook the global history of work /

Handbook the global history of work / / edited by Karin Hofmeester and Marcel van der Linden.

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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 wo...

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Hofmeester, Karin
TeilnehmendeR:
Hofmeester, Karin,
Linden, Marcel van der,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin, [Germany] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Reference
Physical Description:1 online resource (612 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction / Hofmeester, Karin / Linden, Marcel van der
  • 2. Regions
  • 2.1. China / Moll-Murata, Christine
  • 2.2. South Asia / Behal, Rana P.
  • 2.3. Sub-saharan Africa / Freund, Bill
  • 2.4. Latin America and the Caribbean / Barragán, Rossana / Mayer, David
  • 2.5. Canada and the United States / Palmer, Bryan D.
  • 2.6. Eastern Europe / Zimmermann, Susan
  • 2.7. Western Europe / Komlosy, Andrea
  • 2.8. Iran (Persia) / Atabaki, Touraj
  • 2.9. The Ottoman Middle East and Modern Turkey
  • 3. Types of Work
  • 3.1. Agriculture / Vanhaute, Eric
  • 3.2. Mining / Knotter, Ad
  • 3.3. Textile Industry / Parthasarathi, Prasannan
  • 3.4. Trade, Transport, and Services / Cole, Peter / Hart, Jennifer
  • 3.5. Administrative Staff / Garstenauer, Therese
  • 4. Labour Relations
  • 4.1. Introductory Remarks / Hofmeester, Karin
  • 4.2. Subsistence and Household Labour / Boris, Eileen
  • 4.3. Convict Labour / De Vito, Christian G.
  • 4.4. Indentured Labour / Hoefte, Rosemarijn
  • 4.5. Slave Labour / Manning, Patrick
  • 4.6. Wage Labour / Lucassen, Jan
  • 5. Attitudes To Work / Hofmeester, Karin
  • 6. Labour Migration
  • 7. Work Incentives and Forms of Supervision / Linden, Marcel van der
  • 8. Organization and Resistance
  • 8.1. Mutualism / Linden, Marcel van der
  • 8.2. Desertion / Rossum, Matthias van
  • 8.3. Strikes, Lockouts, and Informal Resistance / Velden, Sjaak van der
  • 8.4. Trade Unions / Linden, Marcel van der
  • Acknowledgments / Hofmeester, Karin / Linden, Marcel van der
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Names

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