Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history
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Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history
（Studies in global social history / series editor, Marcel van der Linden, 1）
Brill, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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?
Table of Contents
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
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