Global Histories of Work.

Intro -- 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. Southern African Labour History in International Context -- Varieties of Work -- Workers in the World. Indian Seafarers, c. 1870s-1940s -- Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same?. Reviewing Practices in Industry and the Military in Twentieth- Century Contexts -- Work - Transformation of Objects or Interaction Between Subjects? -- Dynamics of Labour Relations -- The Politics of Ambiguity. Conditional Manumission, Labor Contracts, and Slave Emancipation in Brazil (1850s-1888) -- Regulated Informality. Legal Constructions of Labour Relations in Colonial India 1814-1926 -- The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Russia in a Comparative European Perspective -- The End of Wage Labour? -- Wageless Life -- The Problem with Work -- Reshaping the social contract. Emerging relations between the state and informal labor in India -- About authors.

This series will trace at the example of work the historical connections between regions and critically engage with the idea of the North Atlantic World as normal and the rest as exceptional. The aim is to publish studies that change focus back and forth from the intimacy and complexity of relationships in specific places and their connections to distant places and long-term processes of change thereby looking beyond locality and region.

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