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Marcel van der Linden
The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological…
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This volume makes available in English a collection of 12 of Professor Van der Linden’s most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range…
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If the Soviet Union did not have a socialist society, then how should its nature be understood? The present book presents the first comprehensive appraisal of the debates on this…
The sixteen essays in this collection discuss the direct and indirect impact of the British Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807) on labor relations in the Americas…
Exploring links between labourers across the world, the book argues that globalisation and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South. It highlights inequalities through which workers in…
A vital thematically-arranged collection of key readings exploring the global history of work.
Volume I describes the various movements and thinkers who wanted social change without state intervention, and includes egalitarianism, utopian and early socialism, anarchism and syndicalism. It covers cases in Europe…
Volume II describes the various movements and parties which wanted social change through state transformation (social democracy, labour parties, Arab socialism, Indian socialism, the New Left), covering cases across six…
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The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each…
These volumes offer an up-to-date critical survey of the socialist movements that have arisen throughout the world thus far. Together, they cover anarchism, syndicalism, social democracy, Labour, the New Left…
A wide-ranging survey of debates within Marxism about the Soviet Union in the twentieth century.
Global Labour History has firmly established itself in the past three decades. This anthology provides an overview of the conceptual aspects of the discipline and is underpinned by case and…
The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in honor of Marcel van der Linden, presents the latest developments in the global history of labor, work and workers, and of…
A comprehensive overview of the discipline of global labour history, including wide-ranging case studies which take into account the local, regional, and continental processes of the working class.
Leading scholars explore the resurgence of interest in the term capitalism and debates the term’s usefulness and its limits in social and economic history –
Historically, capitalism has always integrated various forms of unfree labour, including chattel slavery, convict labour and debt bondage. Contrary to purported wisdom, these forms of exploitation have not disappeared during…
The contributions in this book emphasize three types of historical situations. First, situations where racially structured unfree labour relations (e.g., slavery) turned into free labour markets, or where previously unfree…
Capitalism has been a controversial concept. In the second half of the 20th century, many historians have either not used the concept at all, or only in passing. Many regarded…
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work…
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Considers how de-industrialization affects working-class culture, trade unions, traditional labour parties, and the regional social, educational and cultural infrastructure.
This volume takes a fresh look at the notion of ‘wage-workers’. The contributors suggest that the idea of a ‘pure’ working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian…
When he died, Marx left his opus Capital unfinished. But how incomplete was the project? This volume offers the first comprehensive answer.
The recent wave of globalization has a profound impact on labour. Consequently, research in the field of labour and working-class history has become less Eurocentric and more global over the…
The twenty-seven articles presented in this volume mark the first stage of an international research project set up after the comprehensive reorganization of the International Institute of Social History in…
What might a critique of the political economy of labour look like that critically reviews the experiences of the past five hundred years while moving beyond Eurocentrism? The twenty historical…
Introduces some of the most interesting of the new research methods developed by sociologists for social historians. Topics covered include event structure analysis, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, and recursive…
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one’s social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past…
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More than twenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, this peer-reviewed book series attempts to meet the need…
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The essays in this book are written by recognised experts and provide a comparative overview of the development of labour law in different countries. The book aims to give a…
With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s…
Gottfried Mergner
At the heart of the historical and social sciences lies the remarkable gray area of learning processes. Learning is usually perceived as individual childhood development at home and at school…
Asian industrial competition, from Japan, China but also India, attracted greater public attention in Europe during the inter-war period than ever before. Indian industrial employment became the subject not only…
During the last decade studies have indicated that migration has been a normal, structural element of human societies throughout history. This book presents a reconsideration of current theoretical perspectives encompassing…
After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from…
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Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, these are the focus of…
In the late nineteenth century in a number of continental European countries Christian associations of workers arose: Christian trade unions, workers’ cooperatives, political leagues, workers’ youth movements and cultural associations…
August Sartorius von Waltershausen
August Sartorius von Waltershausen was an eminent German economist who visited the States in the 1880s and wrote articles on the US labor movement, before the establishment of strong national…
An edition of the work of August Sartorius von Waltershausen, German economist, wrote articles about the US labor movement after visiting the country in the 1880s.
The case studies in this volume trace important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers’ responses to these historic transformations.
Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century…
