The End of Labour History?

The End of Labour History?
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521467230

The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and validity of the sub-discipline. Each essay is in itself a response to criticisms of the ways in which labour historians have approached their subjects.

Workers of the World

Workers of the World
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047442849

The studies offered in this volume integrate the history of wage labor, of slavery, and of indentured labor. They contribute to a Global Labor History freed from Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism.

Transnational Labour History

Transnational Labour History
Author: Marcel van der Linden
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351877917

There has been a growing recognition amongst scholars that labour historians need to look beyond national borders in order to place the history of the working classes into a much broader context than has hitherto been the case. Whilst studies focused on individual countries are essential, it is only by comparing and contrasting the experiences across time and space that a true understanding of the subject can be attempted. Professor Marcel van der Linden, has contributed much to the debate on cross-border processes and comparisons. This volume makes available in English a collection of twelve of his most important essays on the theme of transnational labour history. Previously published in a range of journals and volumes, with two original contributions, Transnational Labour History brings them together in a single convenient collection, together with a new introduction. This work will undoubtedly provide an invaluable resource for all students of European labour history.

Speak for Britain!

Speak for Britain!
Author: Martin Pugh
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2010-03-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1407051555

Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact of the First World War, the general strike of 1926, Labour's breakthrough at the 1945 general election, the influence of post-war affluence and consumerism on the fortunes and character of the party, and its revival after the defeats of the Thatcher era. Controversially, Pugh argues that Labour never entirely succeeded in becoming 'the party of the working class'; many of its influential recruits - from Oswald Mosley to Hugh Gaitskell to Tony Blair - were from middle and upper-class Conservative backgrounds and rather than converting the working class to socialism, Labour adapted itself to local and regional political cultures.

Gendering Labor History

Gendering Labor History
Author: Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0252073932

The role of gender in the history of the working class world

General Labour History of Africa

General Labour History of Africa
Author: Stefano Bellucci
Publisher: James Currey
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2019-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847012183

The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

Violence of Work

Violence of Work
Author: Jeremy Milloy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Labor
ISBN: 1487523432

The Violence of Work demonstrates that violence has always been an important part of work under capitalism. The editors explore workplace violence in a diverse range of North American workplaces from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century.

Global Histories of Work

Global Histories of Work
Author: Andreas Eckert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110434466

Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.