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Book Synopsis“Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move – often in large numbers – to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour”. This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour, working-class, and migration history by illuminating the lives of working people over the 19th and 20th centuries. The book's twenty authors discuss a wide range of topics, from capital investments in terms of the availability of low-wage labour and forced mobilization to gender discrimination. Contributors are: Selda Altan, Beate Althammer, Nina Trige Andersen, Cecilia Bruzelius, Geoffrey Ewen, Katharine Frederick, Veronika Helfert, Dirk Hoerder, Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal, Dácil Juif, Radhika Kanchana, Leslie Page Moch, Lukas Neissl, Christof Parnreiter, Lucas Poy, Richard Saich, Mahua Sarkar, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Yukari Takai, and Aliki Vaxevanoglou.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-Wing Strategies Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl Part 1 Perspectives, Approaches, Frames 2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International Approaches Dirk Hoerder 3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and Migration Christof Parnreiter and Dirk Hoerder Part 2 Class/Classes: Formations, Outsourcing, Informalizing, Global Hierarchies 4 Introduction Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 5 Outsourcing the Working Class Guestwork in Turbulent Times Mahua Sarkar 6 Is There Informal Labour? The Concept, the ilo’s Ideology, and Greece as an Example Aliki Vaxevanoglou 7 Utilizing Population Movements How States Use Emigration to Regulate National Economies Cecilia Bruzelius 8 The Quest for Chinese Labour Colonial Competition for Coolies and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese Worker Selda Altan 9 African Agency versus State and Capital Control Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960s Dácil Juif Part 3 Empires and Labour Regimes – and “the Left” 10 Introduction Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 11 Organizable and Unorganizable Migrants Racism and Internationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century Social Democracy Lucas Poy 12 Labour Migration Regimes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch 13 Producing (Im-)mobile Capital and Labour in the Arab-Gulf Region From the British Empire to Independent States Radhika Kanchana 14 The Making of a Neoliberal Labour Regime in California Immigration, American Empire, and Union Organizing in the 1980s and 1990s Richard Saich Part 4 Regional Migration Patterns, Work Regimes, and Worker Agency 15 Introduction Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 16 Foreign Polish Labour Migrants in the German Empire A Reassessment Beate Althammer 17 Colonial Boom Towns Migration and Insecure Urban Tenure in Industrializing Southern Rhodesia Katharine Frederick 18 “Ceylon for Sinhalese!” “Depression Politics” and Indian Migrants in Ceylon Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal Part 5 Workingmen’s and -women’s Agency in Globally Interconnected Spaces 19 Introduction Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 20 Between Migrants and States Japanese Entrepreneurs and Professionals in Two Port Cities in the Pacific World, 1880s to 1920s Yukari Takai 21 Deterring Free and Deploying Interned Migrant Ukrainian Workers The Catholic Church, the Canadian State, and the Quebec Asbestos Strikes of 1915 and 1916 Geoffrey Ewen 22 A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally Migrant Women Workers, Trade Union Activists, and the Textile Industry, 1960s to 1980s Veronika Helfert 23 Filipina Chambermaids in Denmark Organizing within and Outside the Copenhagen Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, 1960s to 1990s Nina Trige Andersen Selective Bibliography Index
