| Title:
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WORKING ON LABOR
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JAN LUCASSEN |
| By: |
Marcel van der Linden, Leo Lucassen, Karin Hofmeester |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£108.90 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9004229523 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789004229525 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
9 August, 2012 |
| Series: |
Studies in Global Social History 9 |
| Pages: |
436 |
| Description: |
Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century to the present. |
| Synopsis: |
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor. The essays deal with five major themes: the production of specific commodities or services (diamonds, indigo, cigarettes, mail delivery by road runners); occupational groups (informal street vendors, prostitutes, soldiers, white-collar workers in the Dutch East India Company, VOC); geographical and social mobility (career opportunities on non-Dutch officers in the VOC, immigration into early-modern Holland; the influence of migrants on labor productivity; income differentials as migration incentives); contexts of labor relations (late medieval labor laws, subsistence labor and female paid labor, Russian peasant-migrant laborers, diverging political trajectories of cane-sugar industries); and the origins of labor-history libraries and archives. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Brill |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |