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Titolo |
Work out of place / / edited by Mahua Sarkar |
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Berlin : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Collana |
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Work in global and historical perspective, , 2509-8861 ; ; volume 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Work |
Labor |
Employment (Economic theory) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Work Out of Place / Sarkar, Mahua -- Men do not gather grapes from thorns: Indentured Labor, Guestworkers, and the Failure of Regulation / Hahamovitch, Cindy -- Colonial Capitalism and Javanese Transcolonial Labor Migration in insular Asia / Houben, Vincent -- Between Sozialismus and Socialismo: African workers and public authority in the German Democratic Republic / Allina, Eric -- The Moped Diaries: Remittances in the Czechoslovak- Vietnamese Labor Migration Scheme -- Moveable Migrants, Laboring Lives: Making Refugees 'Useful' in Post-Colonial India / Sengupta, Anwesha -- Unfree Labour, Migration and Social Transformation in Neoliberal Capitalism / Castles, Stephen -- From "out-of-plan worker" to the "floating mass": Informal Work in the history of the PRC / Li, Ju -- Labor: the Hidden Factor behind Mass Incarceration USA - and Decarceration? / Martin, William G. -- What is Work? Who is a Worker? / Sarkar, Mahua -- Conclusion / Hahamovitch, Cindy -- List of Contributors -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects |
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All work is free work - or is it? Rooted in the historical and theoretical debates over the status of labor, this volume analyzes the relationship between free and forced work, migration, and the role that states play in producing un-freedom. With contributions among others from |
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Stephen Castles, Cindy Hahamovitch, Vincent Houben and William G. Martin, the book explores constrained labor forms across the world from the mid-19th century to today. |
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