Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history / by Marcel van der Linden.

By:

Linden, Marcel van der, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in global social history ; v. 1.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 469 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789047442844
9047442849
1282398830
9781282398832
9786612398834
6612398833

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Workers of the world.DDC classification:

331 22

LOC classification:

HD4841 .L497 2008eb

Other classification:

NW 8300

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Contents:

Cover -- 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.

Summary: Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, this book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history - a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-454) and index.

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Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, this book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a different interpretation of history - a labor history which integrates the history of slavery and indentured labor, and which pays serious attention to diverging yet interconnected developments in different parts of the world.

English.

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