Global histories of work / edited by Andreas Eckert.
| Other author | Eckert, Andreas, 1964- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016] |
| Description | 1 electronic resource (vi, 367 pages ) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Work in global and historical perspective, 2509-8861 ; Volume 1 |
| Contents | Why all the fuss about global labour history? / Andreas Eckert -- The globalization of labour history. The promise and challenges of global labour history / Marcel van der Linden ; Writing a global history of convict labour / Christian G. De Vito, Alex Lichtenstein ; Rethinking worlds of labour : Southern African labour history in international context / Philip Bonner, Jonathan Hyslop and Lucien van der Walt -- Varities of work. Workers in the world : Indian seafarers, c. 1870s-1940s / G. Balachandran ; Soldiering and working : almost the same? Reviewing practices in industry and the military in twentieth-century contexts / Alf Lüdtke ; Work : transformation of objects or interaction between subjects? / Gerd Spittler -- Dynamics of labour relations. The politics of ambiguity : conditional manumission, labor contracts, and slave emancipation in Brazil (1850s-1888) / Sidney Chalhoub ; Regulated informality : legal constructions of labour relations in colonial India 1814-1926 / Prabhu P. Mohapatra ; The legal status of labour from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century : Russia in a comparative European perspective / Alessandro Stanziani -- The end of wage labour? Wageless life / Michael Denning ; The problem with work / Kathie Weeks ; Reshaping the social contract : emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India / Rina Agarwala. |
| General note | Collection of texts published previously. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: Global histories of work Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2016] 9783110442335 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020719190 |
| ISBN | 9783110434460 (ePUB) |
| ISBN | 97832110437201 (PDF) |
| ISBN | (alk. paper) |
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