Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history

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Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history

by Marcel van der Linden

(Studies in global social history / series editor, Marcel van der Linden, v. 1)

Brill, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-454) and index

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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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