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1 online resource |
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Studies in global social history ; 35 |
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Studies in global social history ; 35.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester -- Workers: New Developments in Labor History since the 1980s / Jan Lucassen -- "With the Name Changed, the Story Applies to You!": Connections between Slavery and "Free" Labor in the Writings of Marx / Pepijn Brandon -- Capitalism and Its Critics. A Long-Term View / Jurgen Kocka -- ILO and the Oldest Non-profession / Magaly Rodr̕guez Garcia -- Great Fear of 1852: Riots against Enslavement in the Brazilian Empire / Sidney Chalhoub -- Driving out the Undeserving Poor / Jan Breman -- Area Studies and the Development of Global Labor History / Andreas Eckert -- Beyond Labor History's Comfort Zone? Labor Regimes in Northeast India, from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century / Willem van Schendel -- Bibliography |
| Summary |
The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van Schendel discuss new concepts of work and workers, including sex workers, slaves in Brazil, and voluntary communal laborers in North-East India, while Andreas Eckert shows the relevance of area studies. Jürgen Kocka presents a history of capitalism and its critics to date, Pepijn Brandon analyzes Marx?s ideas on the link between free and coerced labor, and Jan Breman looks at the effects of capitalism on rural solidarity through the lens of Tocqueville |
| Notes |
Title from content provider |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-238) and index |
| Subject |
Labor -- History
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Working class.
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Capitalism.
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Working class
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Capitalism
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Labor
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bosma, Ulbe
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Hofmeester, Karin
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| LC no. |
2018287413 |
| ISBN |
9789004386587 |
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9004386580 |
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9789004386617 |
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9004386610 |
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