Workers of the world
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004166837 |
| Open Library | OL16920804W |
| Total publications | 19 |
| Coverage period | 2008 - 2008 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 105 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
The studies presented in this volume contribute to a global labour history freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism. Using literature from diverse regions, epochs and disciplines, the book provides arguments and conceptual tools for a new interpretation of labour history.
Chapter Two. Who Are The Workers?
This chapter focuses on explaining a realistic, broadened concept of the working class. It starts with a constructive critique of Marx' definition of the working class. Marx is used as a starting point for two reasons: he is still an important source of inspiration for scholars around the world, and, in spite of several weaknesses, his analysis is still the best we have. Marx regarded the capitalist mode of production as the consequence of the co…
Index
Chapter Six. Mutual Insurance
Chapter Seven. Consumer Cooperatives
Chapter Sixteen. Outlook
Chapter Eleven. Unions
Chapter Ten. Consumer Protest
Chapter Fifteen. The Iatmul Experience
In decentering their traditional approach, the labor historians can benefit from ethnological studies. It is not uncommon for different ethnologists to visit and study a certain ethnic group or region over the course of several decades. And while the resulting publications vary in quality and cover a range of different aspects of the same local society, the combination of different works may shed light on longer-term developments - especially whe…
Chapter Nine. Strikes
Preliminary Materials
Chapter Three. Why “Free” Wage Labor?
Human labor power can be transformed into a commodity in different ways. Two of the most important forms are chattel slavery and wage labor. The first documented indications of wage labor are provided by historians in the ancient period. From their work, it can be established that there were, in fact, at least four basic variants: casual labor, artisanal labor, military service and artisans' apprenticeships. It these four variants are considered …
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Five. The Mutualist Universe
In diverse circumstances workers have participated in mutualist arrangements to make their lives more livable and less risky. Mutualist activities not only occur among all kinds of workers, formally or informally, but also among all other social classes. Mutualism in this sense is not class-specific, although it is often an important component of proletarian survival strategies: a wealth of social contacts with people willing to share may compens…
Chapter Fourteen. Entangled Subsistence Labor
The movement known as the Bielefeld existed from the 1970s until the early 1990s, but it focused on the question of subsistence labor only during the first half of this period. The School became known for its distinctive working style. The core concept of subsistence labor was of interest to the Bielefelders not only for analytical reasons but also as a rudimentary version of a possible alternative to capitalism. The different combinations of sub…
Chapter Thirteen. World-System Theory
This chapter talks about the Global Labor History, a labor history that studies labor relations and labor movements from a transnational or even transcontinental perspective. In fact, supporters of the world-system approach have published many studies on labor movements, workers and other objective proletarians since 1976. These contributions provide new insights from which labor and working class historians can benefit, even if they do not, or n…
Chapter Twelve. Labor Internationalism
Chapter Eight. Producer Cooperatives
Chapter Four. Why Chattel Slavery?
While wage labor grew quantitatively more and more important in the course of time, the relative proportion of slavery was reduced worldwide. Among the general public, and also often among less well-informed historians, slavery is directly associated with brutal physical oppression. This chapter draws a comparison between three main types of slavery: there have been slaves who performed simple and unskilled labors under the supervision of the mas…
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…
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…
Chapter Two. Who Are The Workers?
This chapter focuses on explaining a realistic, broadened concept of the working class. It starts with a constructive critique of Marx' definition of the working class. Marx is used as a starting point for two reasons: he is still an important source of inspiration for scholars around the world, and, in spite of several weaknesses, his analysis is still the best we have. Marx regarded the capitalist mode of production as the consequence of the co…
Index
Chapter Six. Mutual Insurance
Chapter Seven. Consumer Cooperatives
Chapter Sixteen. Outlook
Chapter Eleven. Unions
Chapter Ten. Consumer Protest
Chapter Fifteen. The Iatmul Experience
In decentering their traditional approach, the labor historians can benefit from ethnological studies. It is not uncommon for different ethnologists to visit and study a certain ethnic group or region over the course of several decades. And while the resulting publications vary in quality and cover a range of different aspects of the same local society, the combination of different works may shed light on longer-term developments - especially whe…
Chapter Nine. Strikes
Preliminary Materials
Chapter Three. Why “Free” Wage Labor?
Human labor power can be transformed into a commodity in different ways. Two of the most important forms are chattel slavery and wage labor. The first documented indications of wage labor are provided by historians in the ancient period. From their work, it can be established that there were, in fact, at least four basic variants: casual labor, artisanal labor, military service and artisans' apprenticeships. It these four variants are considered …
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Five. The Mutualist Universe
In diverse circumstances workers have participated in mutualist arrangements to make their lives more livable and less risky. Mutualist activities not only occur among all kinds of workers, formally or informally, but also among all other social classes. Mutualism in this sense is not class-specific, although it is often an important component of proletarian survival strategies: a wealth of social contacts with people willing to share may compens…
Chapter Fourteen. Entangled Subsistence Labor
The movement known as the Bielefeld existed from the 1970s until the early 1990s, but it focused on the question of subsistence labor only during the first half of this period. The School became known for its distinctive working style. The core concept of subsistence labor was of interest to the Bielefelders not only for analytical reasons but also as a rudimentary version of a possible alternative to capitalism. The different combinations of sub…
Chapter Thirteen. World-System Theory
This chapter talks about the Global Labor History, a labor history that studies labor relations and labor movements from a transnational or even transcontinental perspective. In fact, supporters of the world-system approach have published many studies on labor movements, workers and other objective proletarians since 1976. These contributions provide new insights from which labor and working class historians can benefit, even if they do not, or n…
Chapter Twelve. Labor Internationalism
Chapter Eight. Producer Cooperatives
Chapter Four. Why Chattel Slavery?
While wage labor grew quantitatively more and more important in the course of time, the relative proportion of slavery was reduced worldwide. Among the general public, and also often among less well-informed historians, slavery is directly associated with brutal physical oppression. This chapter draws a comparison between three main types of slavery: there have been slaves who performed simple and unskilled labors under the supervision of the mas…
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…