Working together
New directions in global labour history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Lucassen (0000-0003-2334-4810, International Institute of Social History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-87 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1740022815000352 |
| OpenAlex | W2283121036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 118 |
The aim of this article is to show the added value of global history that puts labour and labour relations as independent variables in the centre and uses structured long-term data by collaborating closely with historians in various parts of the world. The first part focuses primarily on the global labour relations approach, within the broader debate on social inequality and migration. The second part illustrates the potential of labour as an independent variable by reflecting on recent innovative work pertaining to labour-intensive industrializations in East Asia and Europe. The third part employs the perspective of migration to show the interrelated nature of labour relations and labour. Using the insights from the global labour relations approach and by taking labour seriously, the article will help to address core questions in labour history in a more structural way: why has work been valued and compensated in very different ways over the past five centuries? And how have people individually or collectively influenced these conditions? To find answers, it is crucial to make use of standardized empirical data, structured global comparisons, and more intensive collaborations
Core (optical fiber · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Inequality · Labor relations · Labour economics · Management · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Variable (mathematics · Work (physics · World history · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Industrial Relations
A History of Humanity
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Besitz und Selbstständigkeit als Teil von Arbeiterstrategien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
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Big Questions and Big Data
Big Questions and Big Data
Being a Forestry Labourer in the Late Ottoman Empire
The Role of Unfree Labour in Capitalist Development
Conquerors, Employers, and Arbiters
Brazilian Labour History in Global Context
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De-centering dichotomies in wartime labor
The invention of free labor
Race and state in capitalist development
The southern diaspora
The poor of eighteenth-century France 1750-1789
Migration in a Mature Economy
Unfree Labor
The Industrious Revolution
An Uncertain Glory
The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution
Violence and Social Orders
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Navigating World History
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Before and Beyond Divergence
Democracy
World of Possibilities
Forces of Labor
Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
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The Great Divergence
Provincializing Europe
Why Nations Fail
The Spirit Level
Injustice
The Great Divergence
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Coordination in Transition
In The Name of Liberalism
Estimating levels of numeracy and literacy in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic in the late eighteenth century
South Indian Migration, c. 1800–1950
The Populist Vision
Petty Capitalists and Globalization
The origins of political order
Theory as History
Migration History in World History
Slavery and South Asian History
The Creation of Inequality
The Fissured Workplace
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Growing public – social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century
Trust and Rule
Global Migration, 1846–1940
Inequality
Populist Collaborators
Similarity in Difference
Populist Collaborators
China Transformed
British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790-1950
Gender Struggles
The road to the Industrial Revolution
Why and where did modern economic growth begin
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The precariat
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
The penny capitalists
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The Promise and Challenges of Global Labor History
Oceans without Borders”
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Immigration without Inclusion
The Comparative Imagination
Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
India and the Great Divergence
The Comparative Imagination
An Agenda for Transnational Labor History
Labour Commodification and Skilled Selves in Late Nineteenth-Century Australia
A Brave New World
Labour productivity and human capital in the European maritime sector of the eighteenth century
Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries
Work in Times of Slavery, Colonialism, and Civil War
Experiences in Common
Yankeys Now
Workers of the World
The Gifts of Athena
Labour migration and economic performance
Energy availability from livestock and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1815–1913
The early modern great divergence
Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738–1925
Reciprocal Comparison and African History
Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy
The Historical Demography of Pre-Modern Japan
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Freedom, Precariousness, and the Law
The Precariousness of Freedom in a Slave Society (Brazil in the Nineteenth Century)
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Making a Fur Coat
The History Manifesto
No Global Labor History without Africa
Peasant Time and Factory Time in Japan
Informalizing the Economy
Sardars, Jobbers, Kanganies
Labour Relations in an Early Colonial Context
Unsettled Settlers
Rethinking Working-Class History
The Emergence of an Industrial Labor Force in India
Wages, unions, and labour productivity
The Strange Death of Dutch Tolerance
The Historical Demography of Premodern Japan
Injustice
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |