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Working on labor : essays in honor of Jan Lucassen /

Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Linden, Marcel van der, 1935- (Editor ), Lucassen, Leo, 1959- (Editor ), Lucassen, Jan (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill Academic Pub., [2012]
Colección:Studies in global social history ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Marcel van der Linden and Leo Lucassen.
  • Work processes. Working for Diamonds from the 16th to the 20th Century / Karin Hofmeester ; Green Plants into Blue Cakes: Working for Wages in Colonial Bengal's Indigo Industry / Willem van Schendel ; Dak Roads, Dak Runners and the Re-ordering of Communication Networks / Chitra Joshi ; Changing Production Systems and Forms of Labor Control in the Javanese Cigarette Industry: 1920s-1930s / Ratna Saptari.
  • Occupations. Selling in the Shadows: Peddlers and Hawkers in Early Modern Europe / Danielle van den Heuvel ;The Worst Class of Workers. Migration, Labor Relations and Living Strategies of Prostitutes around 1900 / Lex Heerma van Voss ; Fighting for a Living in Europe and Asia / Erik-Jan Zur̈cher ; White Collar Workers of the VOC in Amsterdam, 1602-1795 / Karel Davids.
  • Mobilities. The Career Ladder to the Top of the Dutch East India Company: Could Foreigners also Become Commanders and Junior Merchants? / Jaap R. Bruijn and Femme S. Gaastra ; Demographic Change and Migration Flows in Holland between 1500 and 1800 / Jan Luiten van Zanden and Maarten Prak ; The Economic Contribution of Labor Migrants in the European Maritime Labor Market of the Long Eighteenth Century / Jelle van Lottum ; Income Differentials, Institutions, and Religion: Working in the Rhineland or Pennsylvania in the Eighteenth Century / Richard W. Unger.
  • Contextualizations. Labor Laws in Western Europe, 13th-16th Centuries: Patterns of Political and Socio-economic Rationality / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly ; The First "Male Breadwinner Economy"? Dutch Married Women's and Children's Paid and Unpaid Work in Western Europe Perspective, c. 1600-1900 / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk ; Wage Labor and the Household Economy: a Russian Perspective, 1600-2000 / Gijs Kessler ; Cane Sugar and Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the 1930s: New Thinking and the Origin of Development Economics / Ulbe Bosma.