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Book SynopsisGlobal Labour History has firmly established itself in the past three decades. This anthology provides an overview of the conceptual aspects of the discipline and is underpinned by case and field studies from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and China. It is dedicated to Marcel van der Linden, the doyen of, and networker for, Global Labour History.
Table of ContentsPreface Karl Heinz Roth List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Marcel van der Linden – Networker 1 Marcel van der Linden and the International Institute of Social History on the Road to Global Labour History: A Personal Account Karin Hofmeester 2 Dialogues across Borders: Marcel van der Linden and the Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH) Chitra Joshi, Prabhu P. Mohapatra and Rana P. Behal 3 Marcel van der Linden and the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) David Mayer and Berthold Unfried 4 Marcel van der Linden – Friend of the Foundation for Social History of the Twentieth Century Angelika Ebbinghaus Field and Case Studies 5 Slaveries and the Enslaved in Spanish America: Thoughts on the ‘World Working Class’ in a Historical Global Perspective Michael Zeuske 6 Potosí’s Silver and the Global World of Trade (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) Rossana Barragán Romano 7 Chronicle of a Strike Foretold: Abadan, July 1946 Touraj Atabaki 8 Petitioning as Industrial Bargaining in a Turkish State Factory: The Changing Nature of Petitioning in an Early Republican State Factory Görkem Akgöz 9 Chinese Workers in Global Production and Local Resistance Jenny Chan Methodological and Conceptual Aspects 10 On the Road to Global Labour History – via Comparison Peter Alexander 11 Migration Research in a Global Perspective: Recent Developments Dirk Hoerder 12 Labour Flexibility and Labour Precariousness as Conceptual Tools for the Historical Study of the Interactions among Labour Relations Christian G. De Vito 13 Re-assessing Labour and Value Transfer under Capitalism Andrea Komlosy Marcel van der Linden – His Intellectual Development 14 An Encyclopaedist of Critical Thought: Marcel van der Linden, Heterodox Marxism and Global Labour History Karl Heinz Roth Marcel van der Linden: A Bibliography Bibliography Index
