{"product_id":"in-search-of-the-global-labor-market-9789004514522","title":"In Search of the Global Labor Market","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume addresses pertinent questions related to cross-border labor migration and puts forward a “labor market” perspective that goes beyond the national frame of reference prevailing in most of the extant labor market scholarship. In four sections, the volume pulls together a number of key threads: How can we theoretically grasp “global labor markets?” What does existing empirical research reveal about the current state of affairs and the historical development of “global labor markets”, provided that they can even be regarded as “global?” How is the emergence of border-crossing labor markets influenced by existing institutions, international intermediaries and social networks? The editors have crafted a coherent volume that enriches our understanding of both globalization and labor markets.    Contributors include: Patrik Aspers, Peter-Paul Bänziger, Martin Bühler, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Richard Hyman, Sven Kesselring, Eleonore Kofman, Ursula Mense-Petermann, Sigrid Quack, Alexandra Scheele, Helen Schwenken, Karen Shire, Marcel van der Linden, Thomas Welskopp, Tobias Werron, and Anna Zaharieva.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   List of Figures and Tables   Notes on Contributors    Introduction In Search of the Global Labor Market: Conceptual Meanings, Empirical Evidence and Open Questions    Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva    part 1  What Is Meant by Labor Exchanged in Labor Markets?    Introduction to Part 1 What Is Meant by Labor Exchanged in Labor Markets?    Richard Hyman and Thomas Welskopp    1 Labor Markets in History A Global View    Marcel van der Linden    2 Free Wage Labor as the Most System-Relevant Mode for Allocating Work under Capitalism    Thomas Welskopp    3 Reflections on Violence Some Contradictions of “Free Labor”    Richard Hyman    4 The Role of Gender in the Making of Global Labor Markets    Alexandra Scheele    part 2  The Market Concept and Its Heuristic Potential    Introduction to Part 2 The Market Concept and Its Heuristic Potential    Peter-Paul Bänziger and Ursula Mense-Petermann    5 What Is Unique about Labor Markets?    Patrik Aspers    6 The Contributions and Limits of Market Theory for the Study of Labor Markets    Karen Shire    7 An Object of Analysis Rather Than a Research Tool The Coproduction of Labor Markets and Nation States in the Decades around 1900    Peter-Paul Bänziger    8 Analytical Capacities and “Blind Spots” of the Market Concept in Analyzing Cross-Border Labor Migration    Ursula Mense-Petermann and Helen Schwenken    part 3  What Enables Labor to Cross Borders?    Introduction to Part 3 What Enables Labor to Cross Borders?    Sven Kesselring and Karen Shire    9 The Role of Social Networks for Job Search in National and Transnational Labor Markets    Anna Zaharieva    10 Transnational Labor Markets and the Role of Market Makers—The Case of Eastern European Service Contract Workers in the German Meat Industry    Ursula Mense-Petermann    11 Emergence and Demise of Labor Market Institutions A Transnational Perspective    Sigrid Quack    part 4  What Is the Global in Labor Markets?    Introduction to Part 4 What Is the Global in Labor Markets?    Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Eleonore Kofman    12 Scales and Spaces of Global Labor Markets    Eleonore Kofman    13 Global Institutions and Governance    Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick    14 What Is Global about Global Markets? A Historical Sociological Approach    Martin Bühler and Tobias Werron      Concluding Remarks and Avenues for Future Research    Ursula Mense-Petermann, Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535930130775,"sku":"9789004514522","price":134.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-the-global-labor-market-9789004514522","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}