Workers of the world : essays toward a global labor history / / by Marcel van der Linden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825794403321
• Autore: Linden Marcel van der <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-39883-0; 9786612398834; 90-474-4284-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Collana: Studies in global social history, , 1874-6705 ; ; v. 1
• Disciplina: 331
• Soggetti: Labor - History; Labor movement - History; International labor activities - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-454) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Materials / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter One. Introduction / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Two. Who Are The Workers? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Three. Why “Free” Wage Labor? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Four. Why Chattel Slavery? / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Five. The Mutualist Universe / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Six. Mutual Insurance / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Seven. Consumer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Eight. Producer Cooperatives / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Nine. Strikes / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Ten. Consumer Protest / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Eleven. Unions / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Twelve. Labor Internationalism / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Thirteen. World-System Theory / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Fourteen. Entangled Subsistence Labor / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Fifteen. The Iatmul Experience / M. Van Der Linden -- Chapter Sixteen. Outlook / M. Van Der Linden -- Bibliography / M. Van Der Linden -- Index / M. Van Der Linden.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?