TY - BOOK AU - Linden,Marcel van der TI - Workers of the world: essays toward a global labor history T2 - Studies in global social history, SN - 9789047442844 AV - HD4841 .L497 2008eb U1 - 331 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Labor KW - History KW - Labor movement KW - International labor activities KW - Travail KW - Histoire KW - Mouvement ouvrier KW - Travailleurs KW - Activités internationales KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Labor & Industrial Relations KW - fast KW - Arbeiterklasse KW - gnd KW - Sozialgeschichte KW - Arbeiterbewegung KW - Arbeidersklasse KW - gtt KW - Sociale geschiedenis (wetenschap) KW - Arbeidersbeweging KW - Internationalisatie KW - Electronic books KW - Geschiedenis (vorm) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-454) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=308539 ER -