| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 469 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in global social history,
1874-6705 ;
v. 1
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Studies in global social history ; v. 1.
1874-6705
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-454) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One Introduction -- Conceptualizations -- Chapter Two Who are the workers? -- Chapter Three Why 'free' wage labor? -- Chapter Four Why chattel slavery? -- Varieties of mutualism -- Chapter Five The mutualist universe -- Chapter Six Mutual insurance -- Chapter Seven Consumer cooperatives -- Chapter Eight Producer cooperatives -- Forms of resistance -- Chapter Nine Strikes -- Chapter Ten Consumer protest -- Chapter Eleven Unions -- Chapter Twelve Labor internationalism -- Insights from adjacent disciplines -- Chapter Thirteen World-system theory -- Chapter Fourteen Entangled subsistence labor -- Chapter Fifteen The Iatmul experience -- Chapter Sixteen Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, this 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Labor -- History.
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Labor. |
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History. |
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Labor movement -- History.
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Labor movement. |
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International labor activities -- History.
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International labor activities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- Workers of the world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 (DLC) 2008029647 |
| ISBN |
9789047442844 (electronic book) |
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9047442849 (electronic book) |
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1282398830 |
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9781282398832 |
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9789004166837 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004166831 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789004184794 |
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9004184791 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004166837.i-472 |
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