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Global Labour History: A State of the Art

Global Labour History: A State of the Art

Paperback

Series: International and Comparative Social History, Book 9

EconomicsGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 3039115766
ISBN13: 9783039115761
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 27 2008
Pages: 790
Weight: 2.47
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The recent wave of globalization has a profound impact on labour. Consequently, research in the field of labour and working-class history has become less Eurocentric and more global over the last twenty years. Outstanding specialists take stock of the globalization of the field in eighteen essays. Two introductory essays discuss the theoretical consequences of this development as well as the early historiography of labour and working-class history. Next, ten essays provide an exceptionally complete coverage of recent historiographical trends in the labour history of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia. Finally, six case studies research worldwide and comparative aspects of global labour history, developing best practices in this new and difficult field. They include a wide variety of occupations and economic sectors: agricultural labour, domestic labour, brick making, coal mining and the work done in the docks and on the railways on different continents.

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