Workers of the World

Essays Toward a Global Labor History
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18479-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1620 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Social History

The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the 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. The following questions are central:
- What is the nature of the world working class, on which Global Labor History focuses? How can we define and demarcate that class, and which factors determine its composition?
- Which forms of collective action did this working class develop in the course of time, and what is the logic in that development?
- What can we learn from adjacent disciplines? Which insights from anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists are useful in the development of Global Labor History?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Linden, Marcel Van Der

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
1.Introduction

Conceptualizations
2. Who are the workers?
3. Why `free’ wage labor?
4. Why chattel slavery?

Varieties of mutualism
5. The mutualist universe
6. Mutual insurance
7. Consumer cooperatives
8. Producer cooperatives

Forms of resistance
9. Strikes
10. Consumer protest
11. Unions
12. Internationalism

Insights from adjacent disciplines
13. World systems theory
14. Entangled subsistence labor
15. The Iatmul experience
16. Outlook

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor of social movement history at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on labor and working-class history and on the history of ideas.