Format:
1 online resource (612 pages)
ISBN:
9783110424584
Series Statement:
De Gruyter Reference Ser.
Content:
Coffee from East Africa, wine from California, chocolate from the Ivory Coast - all those every day products are based on labour, often produced under appalling conditions, but always involving the combination of various work processes we are often not aware of. 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 in the past? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work - a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook. In 8 thematic chapters, this book discusses these aspects of work in a global and long term perspective, paying attention to several kinds of work. Convict labour, slave and wage labour, labour migration, and workers of the textile industry, but also workers' organisation, strikes, and motivations for work are part of this first handbook of global labour history, written by the most renowned scholars of the profession. Marcel van der Linden is Professor and Director of Research at the IISH, AmsterdamKarin Hofmeesteris Professor at the IISH, Amsterdam
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110428353
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Handbook the global history of work Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018 ISBN 9783110428353
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110428350
Additional Edition:
Print version Hofmeester, Karin Handbook Global History of Work Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter,c2017 ISBN 9783110428353
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Arbeit
;
Arbeitsbeziehungen
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Geschichte
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Author information:
Hofmeester, Karin 1964-
