Workers of the World : Essays toward a Global Labor History.
Title:
Workers of the World : Essays toward a Global Labor History.
Author:
van der Linden, Marcel.
ISBN:
9789047442844
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (480 pages)
Series:
Studies in Global Social History ; v.1
Studies in Global Social History
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Introduction -- Conceptualizations -- Chapter Two Who are the workers? -- Chapter Three Why 'free' wage labor? -- Chapter Four Why chattel slavery? -- Varieties of mutualism -- Chapter Five The mutualist universe -- Chapter Six Mutual insurance -- Chapter Seven Consumer cooperatives -- Chapter Eight Producer cooperatives -- Forms of resistance -- Chapter Nine Strikes -- Chapter Ten Consumer protest -- Chapter Eleven Unions -- Chapter Twelve Labor internationalism -- Insights from adjacent disciplines -- Chapter Thirteen World-system theory -- Chapter Fourteen Entangled subsistence labor -- Chapter Fifteen The Iatmul experience -- Chapter Sixteen Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 nationalism.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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