Workers across the Americas : the transnational turn in labor history ; [ ... international conference at the Newberry Library in Chicago in September 2008 on "Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond ..."]
ed. by Leon Fink
| Year of publication: |
c2011
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| Other Persons: | Fink, Leon (ed.) |
| Publisher: |
Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press |
| Subject: | Arbeitsbedingungen | Working conditions | Arbeiter | Workers | Arbeitsmigranten | Migrant workers | Arbeitsmobilität | Labour mobility | Amerika | America | Arbeit | Transnationalisierung | Geschichte |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] |
| Extent: | XV, 466 S. Ill. 25 cm |
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| Conferences: | International Conference "Workers, the Nation-State, and Beyond" ; (Chicago, Ill.) : 2008.09. |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Enth. 20 Beitr. Another World history is possible : reflections on the translocal, transnational, and global / John D. French Historians of the world : transnational forces, nation-states, and the practice of U.S. history / Julie Greene Transnational labor history : promise and perils / Neville Kirk Labor history as world history : linking regions over time / Aviva Chomsky Overlapping spaces : transregional and transcultural / Dirk Hoerder Transnational migration : a new historical phenomenon? / Vic Satzewich "black service...white money" : the peculiar institution of military labor in the British Army during the Seven Years' War / Peter Way "We speak the same language in the new world: : capital, class, and community in Mexico's "American century" / Steven J. Bachelor Indigenous labor in mid-nineteenth-century British North America : the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton and Squamish of British Columbia in comparative perspective / Andrew Parnaby "De facto Mexicans" : coffee workers and nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican border, 1913-1941 / Catherine Nolan-Ferrell "No right to layettes or nursing time" : maternity leave and the question of U.S. exceptionalism / Eileen Boris The battle within the home : development strategies and the commodification of caring labors at the 1975 International Women's Year Conference / Jocelyn Olcott Feminizing white slavery in the United States : Marcus Braun and the transnational traffic in white bodies, 1890-1910 / Gunther Peck Patronage and progress : the Bracero program from the perspective of Mexico / Michael Snodgrass Unspoken exclusions : race, nation, and empire in the immigration restrictions of the 1920s in North America and the greater Caribbean / Lara Putnam Claiming political space : workers, municipal socialism, and the reconstruction of local democracy in transnational perspective / Shelton Stromquist A migrating revolution : Mexican political organizers and their rejection of American assimilation, 1920-1940 / John H. Flores Fugitive slaves across North America / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Movable type : Toronto's transnational printers, 1866-1872 / Jacob Remes Global sea or national backwater? The International Labor Organization and the quixotic quest for maritime standards, 1919-1945 / Leon Fink. |
| ISBN: | 0-19-977855-8 ; 0-19-973163-2 ; 978-0-19-977855-3 ; 978-0-19-973163-3 |
| Classification: | Amerika: Allgemeines ; Einkommen, Beschäftigung, Arbeitsmarkt ; Arbeitsbeziehungen |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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