Workers of the world: essays toward a global labor history

"The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor hi...

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Main Author: van der Linden, Marcel
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Leiden 2008
BRILL
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19189052124919072349-Workers-of-the-world-essays-to.htm
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description "The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history – a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world. The following questions are central: ? What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition? ? Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development? ? What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History? "
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physical VIII, 469 p.
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BRILL
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Workers of the world: essays toward a global labor history
title Workers of the world: essays toward a global labor history
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international
labour movement
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url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19189052124919072349-Workers-of-the-world-essays-to.htm