Power at work : a global perspective on control and resistance / edited by Marcel van der Linden and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

van der Linden, Marcel, editor.

Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole, editor.

Series:

Work in Global and Historical Perspective Series

Work in Global and Historical Perspective Series ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change thereby looking beyond locality and region.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Tables and Figures

1 Introduction

2 Burra Sahibs versus Coolies: Discipline and Resistance. Labour in the Assam Valley Tea Plantations

3 Remote Control: Field Management Regimes and the Agricultural Labour Process on Chinese Collective Farms, 1956 to 1980

4 Facing the Market and Fighting without Union: Labour Resistance History of Chinese State Workers

5 Between State Feminism and Work Intensification: Gendered Labour Control Regimes in Turkish Textile and Tobacco Industries

6 The Politics of and in (Re‐)Production in an Eastern Indian Company Town

7 Destructuring the Dis-assembly Line: The Reversal of Power Relations in the Aotearoa/New Zealand Meat Processing Industry

8 Resistance and Regulation on the Self-managed Shop Floor in Yugoslavia

9 Industrial "Cyclopes" and "Native" Stokers: British Steamshipping and the Attractions of "Racial Management" (c. 1880-1930)

10 Southern Africa, Maritime Labour, and Steamship Imperialism c. 1875 to 1948

11 Power after Work: The Un-free Time of Congolese Seafarers in the Belgian Empire (1910-1940)

12 Power at Work: Approaching a Global Perspective

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-108655-0