Beschreibung:
Frontmatter --Inhalt --Introduction --Why all the fuss about Global Labour History? --The Globalization of Labour History --The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History --Writing a Global History of Convict Labour --Rethinking Worlds of Labour --Varieties of Work --Workers in the World --Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? --Work -- Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? --Dynamics of Labour Relations --The Politics of Ambiguity --Regulated Informality --The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century --The End of Wage Labour? --Wageless Life --The Problem with Work --Reshaping the social contract --About authors.
First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors