Working on labor : essays in honor of Jan Lucassen / edited by Marcel van der Linden and Leo Lucassen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-

Lucassen, Leo.

Series:

Studies in Global Social History 9.

Studies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--History.

Working class.

Labor--History.

Labor.

Lucassen, Jan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Marcel van der Linden and Leo Lucassen

Working for Diamonds from the 16th to the 20th Century / Karin Hofmeester

Green Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal’s Indigo Industry / Willem van Schendel

Dak Roads, Dak Runners and the Re-ordering of Communication Networks / Chitra Joshi

Production Systems and Forms of Labor Control in the Javanese Cigarette Industry; 1920's–1930's / Ratna Saptari

Selling in the Shadows: Peddlers and Hawkers in Early Modern Europe / Danielle van den Heuvel

The Worst Class of Workers: Migration, Labor Relations and Living Strategies of Prostitutes around 1900 / Lex Heerma van Voss

Fighting for a Living in Europe and Asia / Erik-Jan Zürcher

White Collar Workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602–1795 / Karel Davids

The Career Ladder to the Top of the Dutch East India Company: Could Foreigners also Become Commanders and Junior Merchants? / Jaap R. Bruijn and Femme S. Gaastra

Demographic Change and Migration Flows in Holland between 1500 and 1800 / Jan Luiten van Zanden and Maarten Prak

The Economic Contribution of Labor Migrants in the European Maritime Labor Market of the Long Eighteenth Century / Jelle van Lottum

Income Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century / Richard W. Unger

Labor Laws in Western Europe, 13th–16th Centuries: Patterns of Political and Socio-economic Rationality / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly

The First “Male Breadwinner Economy”? Dutch Married Women’s and Children’s Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe Perspective, c. 1600–1900 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

Wage Labor and the Household Economy: A Russian Perspective, 1600–2000 / Gijs Kessler

Cane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930's: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics / Ulbe Bosma

Unwritten Autobiography: Labor History Libraries before World War 1 / Jaap Kloosterman

Notes on Contributors

Tabula Gratulatoria

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55118-7

9786613863638

90-04-23144-7

OCLC:

809775291