M Van Der Linden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 12838 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Van Der Linden |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Van Der Linden |
| FIRMA | VAN DER LINDEN M |
| AFILIACIONES | International Institute of Social History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1950-8352 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 397 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Colonial Profits, Unequal Exchange and the Segmentation of the World Working Class
To what extent did and do wage earners in the advanced capitalist countries (“the North”) benefit from the poor living and working conditions of producers and service providers in the poorer parts of the world (“the South”)? The article distinguishes three historical periods: the mercantilist period until the 1830s; the first international division of labor, 1830s–1940s; and the period of Fordism and post-Fordism, with a second international divi…
Workers Who Benefit from the Exploitation of Other Workers
Often, all too often, global working-class solidarity remains fragile, conditional or fails to be realized in practice, whatever the lofty rhetoric may be. The present paper explores one possible explanation: workers in the North profit from the exploitation of workers in the South through cheap commodities and services, and additional job opportunities. For example, wage-earners in the North can buy T-shirts so advantageously because their real …
Lenin, Moribund Capitalism and the Global Crisis of Labor Movements
In the first decades after 1914, capitalism went through a deep crisis while labor movements actually gained strength. This was the time when Lenin and others developed the theory of an irreversible decline of world capitalism. From the 1950s onward, the crisis of capitalism appeared to be over and the labor movements seemed to become even stronger. In recent decades, however, we have seen a return of capitalist crises, but this time it has been …
Surplus populations, migration, and collective action
The first massive growth of surplus populations took place in Europe between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while a second, much more extensive wave developed in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, starting approximately in the 1930s and 1940s. The two waves had very different consequences for cross- border migration and social struggles and help explain why labor movements in the North Atlantic region have developed very differently from …
Revisiting the Old Dilemmas
Migration
Against both the catastrophist and ‘win-win’ perspectives on immigration, this class-based examination shows that in-country and in-region movement far outstrips the traffic on the ‘migratory corridors’ joining poor countries to rich. Fieldwork from India and Indonesia reveals the social determinants shaping the conditions of departure
Jan Breman, het racisme, het kolonialisme en de sociale kwestie
In Kolonialisme en racisme heeft Jan Breman veertien opstellen van eigen hand verzameld waarvan de helft niet eerder gepubliceerd werd. Als inleiding heeft hij daar nog enkele fragmenten uit zijn autobiografie bij opgenomen die duidelijk maken waar hij vandaan komt en wat hem drijft. De bundel is helder geschreven en kent, ondanks het brede scala van behandelde onderwerpen, enkele duidelijke lijnen. In het bijzonder drie thema’s komen uitgebreid …
Why the Global Labor Movement is in Crisis
One of the great paradoxes of the current era is that the world working class continues to grow, while at the same time many labor movements are experiencing a crisis. How can we explain this paradox? The global simultaneity of the crisis suggests that the failure of individual organizational leaderships is not the main cause, but that more general factors play an important role. The article argues and attemps to partly explain why the first wave…
The Return of Merchant Capital
Clare Anderson, editor. A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
The International Labour Organization, 1919–2019
How can we appraise the record of the International Labour Organization (ILO, 1919–2019) over the last century? In the present essay it is argued that the first half century of the ILO consisted of “fat years,” in which regulating the global labor market achieved limited but clear progress, and that the second half century was a time of “lean years,” when the ILO accomplished less. Following a brief review of the origins and early history of the …
Author’s Response
Alf Lüdtke (1943–2019)
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Workers and the Radical Right
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Marxism” Or Marx's Method? A Brief Response to Tom Brass
Ghostbusting or Real Pluralism? A Brief Response to Peter Ackers
All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are. Still, a white skin is always very conspicuous. In northern Europe, when you see a labourer ploughing a field, you probably give him a second glance. In a hot country, anywhere south of Gibraltar or east of Suez, the chances are that you don't even see him. I have noticed this again and again. 1 Since the start of the new…
Labor history, tournant de « l’histoire globale » et marxismes
Dans cet entretien, Marcel Van der Linden revient d’abord sur sa trajectoire d’historien des mouvements ouvriers, de son engagement à l’extrême-gauche jusqu’à la direction de l’Institut international d’histoire sociale. Il présente notamment le tournant de l’histoire globale qui a permis de renouveler récemment l’histoire des mouvements sociaux, notamment des solidarités ouvrières. Il revient également sur les interprétations marxistes du régime …
Is Capitalism's Collapse Coming
Dissecting Coerced Labor
Rosa Luxemburg’s Global Class Analysis
How did Rosa Luxemburg, in her The Accumulation of Capital and other writings, analyse the development of the working class and other subordinate classes under capitalism, and how did she view the relationship between these classes and those living in ‘natural economic societies’? Following primary sources closely, the present essay reconstructs and evaluates Luxemburg’s class analysis of global society. It is shown that Luxemburg pioneered a tru…
Robert Castel's Les métamorphoses de la question sociale (1995)
In the scholarly debate about the increasingly flexible, informal, and precarious nature of employment relations, it is often suggested that these trends are new. This is especially true for the advanced capitalist countries. “Previously,” employees had permanent jobs, with good social benefits and a vast array of rights, whereas “nowadays” they are losing these forms of security and are more vulnerable to market whims. These observations do not …
The Growth of a European Network of Labor Historians
The first conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) took place on December 14–16, 2015, in Turin, Italy. It was, for the time being, the culmination of a development that has been going on for a number of years. Increasingly European labor historians work together across borders. Since the 1970s the number of research projects comparing two or more national cases has grown considerably, while in recent years transnational connectio…
O Conceito Marxiano De Proletariado
A teoria marxiana do proletariado exige uma séria reconsideração. Sua delimitação teórica do proletariado frente a outros grupos subalternos (o lumpemproletariado e os escravos) é inconsistente; as análises das classes concretas baseadas nessa teoria foram amplamente refutadas pela pesquisa empírico-histórica; e sua previsão do crescimento do proletariado somente se confirmou parcialmente por desenvolvimentos tardios. Indubitavelmente, necessitam…
Labor History
The Okanisi
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Informalizing the Economy
The classical conceptualization of the working class, of workers' collective action and, especially, of trade unionism, was implicitly or explicitly based on the Standard Employment Relationship that, for a few decades, has been dominant in North America, Europe, Japan and Australasia. The 'classical' model of collective bargaining, which has shaped the world's traditional labour movements, was based on this conceptualization. However, it is now …
Workers of the World
The studies offered in this volume contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the 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 differe…
San Precario
Precariat refers to groups of people who previously had been known as the casual poor, that is, workers who have no control over their destiny and depend on the goodwill of others. Precarious employment relations are temporary, involving jobs that last a day, a week, or a few months at most. In this short essay Marcel van der Linden discusses the definition of precarious labor, its long history, its decline and rise in the advanced capitalist cou…
Labour History
The 'Law' of Uneven and Combined Development
This paper presents a critical reconstruction of the main Marxist debates about the idea of 'leaps forward' in historical development. There have been two important approaches: the so-called 'law of uneven and combined development', as developed by Leon Trotsky, George Novack and Ernest Mandel, and Jan Romein's 'handicap of a head start'. Although Romein's approach is Stalinist in origin, elements of it are compatible with Trotsky's interpretatio…
Shifting Boundaries between Free and Unfree Labor
In 1905, Henry Nevinson, at the time a well-known British journalist, visited Angola. He discovered that the slave trade was still going on in secret in that region, many years after it had officially been abolished. Deep inside Southern Africa slaves were caught; they were forced to walk hundreds of miles to the coast until they arrived at Katumbella, where “the slaves were rested, sorted out, dressed, and then taken on over the fifteen miles to…
Transnationalizing American Labor History
Journal Article Transnationalizing American Labor History Get access Marcel van der Linden Marcel van der Linden senior research fellow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1078–1092, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568606 Published: 01 December 1999
The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History
The idea that the histories of different regions in the world are interconnected is not particularly novel; it already existed several centuries ago. Thus, for example, when the German historian and playwright Friedrich Schiller was granted a chair at the University of Jena in 1789, he declared in his inaugural address that “the most remote regions of the world contribute to our luxury.” After all, he continued, “The clothes we wear, the spices i…
Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology
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The National Integration of European Working Classes (1871–1914)
Seven factors that may have contributed to the national integration of the working classes in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia 1871–1914 are explored: the national process of capital accumulation, the international prestige of the nation, the coming of interregional connections, compulsory education, suffrage, the role of the army, and the introduction of social insurance systems. The (provisional) results of this exploration show a cl…
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Connecting Household History and Labour History
Labour historians have always shown an interest in working class men and women who participated in strikes, unions, and political parties. However, even when historians are receptive to the importance of family life behind public activism these scholars continue to use the “public sphere” as an approach for studying the family. This approach runs counter to historical logic because the daily life of those who join social movements and organizatio…
Re-constructing the origins of modern labor management
Mainstream history generally assumes that modern labor-management techniques originated in factories in Europe and North America employing ‘free’ wage laborers. The present explorative article argues, however, that important innovations were born outside the North Atlantic region (especially in the colonies), in attempts to control unfree workers; that some of these innovations date from long before the Industrial Revolution; and that knowledge a…
The “Globalization” of Labor and Working-Class History and its Consequences
Labor historians from Europe and North America frequently assert that their discipline is not in a healthy state. Such a picture is a distortion, however, for the world does not stop at the equator: in various regions of Latin America, Africa and Asia the historiography of workers and labor movements has made great strides in the last twenty to thirty years. Labor history's “globalization” calls for a new type of historiography, which transcends …
Unanticipated consequences of 'humanitarian intervention
Second thoughts on revolutionary syndicalism
História do Trabalho
O artigo apresenta uma nova fase da História Social do Trabalho, caracterizada pela tentativa de superação do nacionalismo metodológico e do Eurocentrismo, cujo potencial vem se revelando extremamente rico no estabelecimento de uma perspectiva global de entendimento da classe trabalhadora e de sua história. Uma nova História Global do Trabalho vem se estabelecendo como uma "área de interesse", caracterizada por certo pluralismo teórico e pelo int…
Rumo a uma nova conceituação histórica da classe trabalhadora mundial
Este artigo apresenta uma discussão historiográfica sobre o conceito de classe trabalhadora levando em conta as diversas experiências históricas desde o século XIX. A questão a ser enfocada nas páginas seguintes é como podemos visualizar um novo conceito da classe trabalhadora levando em conta as contribuições oferecidas por Breman, Gooptu, Linebaugh e outros. A fim de encontrar uma resposta a essa questão, o artigo realiza uma crítica construtiv…
On Council Communism
Labour History as the History of Multitudes
Marcel van der Linden Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press 2000) LABOUR HISTORIANS STUDY the class to examine its development, composition, conditions, lifestyle, culture, and many other aspects. But what exactly do we mean when we use the term working class? Over the past half-century, the answer to this seemingly simple question changed continuously…
Global Labor History and “the Modern World-System”
I regard the work of the past 20 years and of some years to come as the work of clearing the underbrush, so that we may build a more useful framework for social science. Immanuel Wallerstein (1996) In September 1976, the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations opened its doors at the State University of New York - Binghamton. The new institution made a flying start. After three months it presented …
Keeping Distance
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The International Labour Organization, 1919–2019
How can we appraise the record of the International Labour Organization (ILO, 1919–2019) over the last century? In the present essay it is argued that the first half century of the ILO consisted of “fat years,” in which regulating the global labor market achieved limited but clear progress, and that the second half century was a time of “lean years,” when the ILO accomplished less. Following a brief review of the origins and early history of the …
Workers and the Radical Right
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Marxism” Or Marx's Method? A Brief Response to Tom Brass
To Our Readers
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The National Integration of European Working Classes (1871–1914)
Seven factors that may have contributed to the national integration of the working classes in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia 1871–1914 are explored: the national process of capital accumulation, the international prestige of the nation, the coming of interregional connections, compulsory education, suffrage, the role of the army, and the introduction of social insurance systems. The (provisional) results of this exploration show a cl…
Labour History and Organizational Ecology
Economists engaged in research into the firm have often used analogies which originated in the exact sciences, preferably in physics (and specifically mechanics), or biology. Alfred Marshall was a particular exponent of the latter. He regarded capitalist competition as a kind of "struggle for existence" between "industrial organisations", causing "those organisms to multiply which are best fitted to derive benefit from their environment". rganiza…
Revolutionary Syndicalism
Essor et déclin du syndicalisme révolutionnaire
Long-term Continuities in Labor History
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Mutual workers’insurance
This article focuses on the historical development of small workers’mutual insurance societies whose members manage the fund themselves. The article begins by describing the remarkable similarities in terms of characteristics and development of these societies in different places and periods. It then discusses various non‐directly democratic competitors in the field of social insurance and forms of State intervention. Finally, the article attempt…
Connecting Household History and Labour History
Labour historians have always shown an interest in working class men and women who participated in strikes, unions, and political parties. However, even when historians are receptive to the importance of family life behind public activism these scholars continue to use the “public sphere” as an approach for studying the family. This approach runs counter to historical logic because the daily life of those who join social movements and organizatio…
Class Formation and the Labor Movement as the Subject of Dialectic Social History
As an introduction to this essay, three points need to be made. First, the European labor movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, on which we focus here, were part of bourgeois society. Secondly, they were a factor that challenged bourgeois society and thus contributed in several different ways to its change. Thirdly, as a result of this interaction, the labor movements themselves underwent changes. All of those were lasting ch…
News of the Profession
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Working-Class Consumer Power
Research by labor historians on the acquisition of power by the working class tends to focus on labor relations (acquisition of power in businesses) or on political relations (power through elections, with the government, and so on). This approach overlooks the third source of labor's power, which is based on patterns of consumption resulting from the collective use of purchasing power. This essay examines this source of power. Because the topic …
German Contemporary Studies of American Labor, 1865–1914
News of the Profession
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Keeping Distance
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Racism and the Labour Market
Socialisme ou Barbarie
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Marx and Engels, Dutch Marxism and the “Model Capitalist Nation of the Seventeenth Century
Although neither Marx nor Engels attempted a systematic analysis of the development of merchant capitalism in 17th-century Holland, both did mention this “model capitalist nation” in their writings. Their analysis stressed that Dutch capitalism was based on the exploitation of non-capitalist forms of production, and that the decline of the Dutch Republic in the 18th century was the history of the subordination of commercial capital to industrial …
The Historical Limit of Workers' Protest
Most labour historians have long tacitly shared assumptions that are only now becoming subjects of discussion. For over a century, the building of serious theories of the working class and the workers' movement -which became possible after the classical wage fund theory began to be discredited in the 1870s -proceeded along two competing paths. One was the liberal tradition, which reconstructed the development of labour movements as the history of…
News of the Profession
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Second thoughts on revolutionary syndicalism
Metamorphoses of European social democracy
International comparisons draw attention either to the similarities or to the differences between cases. In the past two decades a great many comparative studies on European social democracy have been published, of which most address the differences between national parties (especially with respect to electoral results). Any systematic focus on similarities is often based on the assumption that the area of common ground is an electoral in the mov…
Philippe Gottraux — "Socialisme ou Barbarie." Un engagement politique et intellectuel dans La France de l'apres-guerre
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Transnationalizing American Labor History
Journal Article Transnationalizing American Labor History Get access Marcel van der Linden Marcel van der Linden senior research fellow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1078–1092, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568606 Published: 01 December 1999
August Sartorius von Waltershausen
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Global Labor History and “the Modern World-System”
I regard the work of the past 20 years and of some years to come as the work of clearing the underbrush, so that we may build a more useful framework for social science. Immanuel Wallerstein (1996) In September 1976, the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations opened its doors at the State University of New York - Binghamton. The new institution made a flying start. After three months it presented …
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