Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history / by Marcel van der Linden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-

Series:

Studies in global social history ; v. 1.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--History.

Labor.

Labor movement--History.

Labor movement.

International labor activities--History.

International labor activities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter One. Introduction / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Two. Who Are The Workers? / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Three. Why “Free” Wage Labor? / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Four. Why Chattel Slavery? / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Five. The Mutualist Universe / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Six. Mutual Insurance / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Seven. Consumer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Eight. Producer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Nine. Strikes / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Ten. Consumer Protest / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Eleven. Unions / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Twelve. Labor Internationalism / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Thirteen. World-System Theory / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Fourteen. Entangled Subsistence Labor / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Fifteen. The Iatmul Experience / M. Van Der Linden

Chapter Sixteen. Outlook / M. Van Der Linden

Bibliography / M. Van Der Linden

Index / M. Van Der Linden.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-454) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39883-0

9786612398834

90-474-4284-9

OCLC:

608624798

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004166837.i-472 DOI