Jan Lucassen

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.

A New History of Humankind

The Story of Work

nowe dzieje ludzkości

Historia pracy

Patrick Manning

Leo Lucassen

"Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural, economic, political and social developments and innovations. So far, however, most studies are limited to the last four centuries, largely ignoring the spectacular advances made in other disciplines which study the °deep past®, like anthropology, archaeology, population genetics and linguistics, and that reach back as far as 80.000 years ago. This is the first book that offers an overview of the state of the art in these disciplines and shows how historians and social scientists working in the recent past can profit from their insights."--Publisher description..

Multidisciplinary Approaches

Migration History in World History

Gert Oostindie

Ulbe Bosma

These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions to the unexpected and often unwelcome migrants was significant to postcolonial migrants' identity politics and how these influenced metropolitan debates about citizenship, national identity and colonial history. The contributors explore the historical background and contemporary significance of these migrations and discuss the ethnic and class composition and the patterns of integration of the migrant population.

Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison

Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics

The basic hypothesis of this volume is that currency patterns may tell us something about the spread of wage payments in specific societies in history. The book discusses the relationship between wages and currency, with reference to different countries and regions in Europe, Asia and South America over more than 2000 years.

Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

Wages and Currency

Hugo Soly

Catharina Lis

This volume examines a wide variety of collective and organized labour movements in what is arguably a distinct period in labour history. The approach is a comparative one, looking particularly at the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Low Countries, but also at Western Europe in general.

Wage Earners and Collective Action in Europe, 1300-1850

Before the Unions

Part I: Historiography Writing Global Labour History c. 1800-1940: A Historiography of Concepts, Periods, and Geographical Scope 39 Jan Lucassen African Labor History 91 Frederick Cooper Reflections on Labor and Working-Class History in the Middle East and North Africa 117 Zachary Lockman Paradigms in the Historical Approach to Labour Studies on South Asia 147 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya The History of Labor in Japan in the Twentieth Century: Cycles of Activism and Acceptance 161 Akira Suzuki Fin-de-Si6cle Labour History in Canada and the United States: A Case for Tradition 195 Bryan D. Palmer Labour in Western Europe from c. 1800 227 Dick Geary The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions 289 John D. French What's in a Name? Labouring Antipodean History in Oceania 335 Lucy Taksa Workers, Class, and the Socialist Revolution in Modern China 373 Arif Dirlik The Drama of the Russian Working Class and New Perspectives for Labour History in Russia 397 Andrei Sokolov Part 2: Case Studies in Comparative Labour History Worldwide Agricultural Labor and Property: A Global and Comparative Perspective 455 Prasannan Parthasarathi Studying Asian Domestic Labour Within Global Processes: Comparisons and Connections 479 Ratna Saptari Brickmakers in Western Europe (17oo00-19oo) and Northern India (1800-2000): Some Comparisons 513 Jan Lucassen Global Labour History in the Twenty-First Century: Coal Mining and Its Recent Pasts 573 Ian Phimister "Nothing to Lose but a Harsh and Miserable Life Here on Earth": Dock Work as a Global Occupation, 1790-1970 591 Lex Heerma van Voss Railroad Labor and the Global Economy: Historical Patterns 623 Shelton Stromquist.

A State of the Art

Global Labour History

Arie de Ruijter

De Nederlandse samenleving wordt al sinds eeuwen gekenmerkt door een grote mate van openheid en pluriformiteit. De laatste decennia lijkt de aard van deze pluriformiteit gewijzigd. Nu spreekt men van een multiculturele samenleving. Nu kan men zich afvragen waaruit die multiculturele samenleving bestaat, onder welke condities en in welke situaties wordt de grote verscheidenheid in de samenleving als problematisch ervaren, onder welke voorwaarden heeft de huidige vorm van pluriformiteit en multiculturaliteit negatieve effecten op de sociale cohesie van de samenleving? Deze diepgaande, historisch-vergelijkende en interdisciplinaire bundel geeft het overzicht van het hedendaagse onderzoek in Nederland op dit terrein. De medewerkers aan deze publicatie zijn: J. Lucassen, H. Vermeulen, J. Koenis, S. Griffioen, J. Tennekes, F. Kortmann, H. Vroom, F. Bovenkerk, R. Penninx, M. Schrover & J. van Amersfoort. Deze bundel maakt deel uit van het NWO-onderzoeksproject naar 'Sociale Cohesie in Nederland'. Dit project heeft als doel de vele vragen ten aanzien van de multiculturele en pluriforme samenleving in een nieuw perspectief te plaatsen en een beantwoording ervan naderbij te brengen.

een aantal conceptuele studies

Nederland multicultureel en pluriform?

Karel Davids

C. A. Davids

A 1996 comparative study of the Netherlands from the late sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century.

The Dutch Republic in European Perspective

A Miracle Mirrored

Jan Luiten van Zanden

Tine De Moor

Using new approaches in economic, social, labour and institutional history, this volume analyses guilds in the period 500-1700 AD.

The Return of the Guilds: Volume 16

Huub Sanders

Aad Blok

Established in Amsterdam in 1935, the International Institute of Social History is one of the world's leading research centres. Its exceptional research collections owe much to its former director Jaap Kloosterman. The contributors offer a rare insight into the history of the institute and the motivation behind devoting a lifetime to collecting social history sources.

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